what you don't understand is that chess is a game that mirrors war
and what we REALLY want is not to have war anymore and to settle things other ways but this principle was known centuries back as the great man said ......
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
....all the KGB read Sun Tsu ......seemed putin never learnt that lesson though and mired his country in a long quite costly but unsuccessful war Sun Tsu would be shaking his head and saying ......exactly NOT how to do it !
