Pattern recognition is central to chess mastery, artificial intelligence, and life. While chess patterns are domain-specific, the way we acquire them reflects a deeper truth about how intelligence works.

A reflection on The Matrix's Cypher and the question of whether choosing illusion over truth is really betrayal—or just human nature. Ties in themes of spiritual escape, Christian belief, and the biological drive for comfort.

The first in a series of posts about how chess is a model for life, on how the game relates to various aspects of conflict