Chess is Still a Game
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Michael Hickson as argued for the provocative thesis that chess is not a game – his “Illusory Checkmates: Why Chess is Not a Game.” More specifically, he (a) argues that chess is not a game in the sense provided by Bernard Suits’ highly influential work in the philosophy of games, and (b) responds to what he considers some of the most important objections to this thesis. In this paper I argue that Hickson is wrong, and that chess is, in fact, a game. The dialectic teaches us something important about the nuances of Suits’ rightly influential definition of ‘play a game’.
DOI: 10.5617/jpg.10845
Author: Michael Ridge
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404040852