{"id":56966,"date":"2017-12-01T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56966"},"modified":"2017-12-05T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:11:14","slug":"latest-mixed-game-metaphor-catch-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56966","title":{"rendered":"Latest  mixed game metaphor catch-all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Kasparov on chess, dominoes ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Dominoes falling, we all know, at least since Vietnam, are a choice metaphor for one thing leading to another, and chess, regular or played in 3 or 4 dimensions, is a common metaphor for the complexity of natsec issues.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Kasparov:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People keep asking about 4-D chess, but this is looking more like dominoes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sy6f4eiy4C\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sy6f4eiy4C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kasparov63\/status\/936652340253413376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tedious for ZP readers to see every mixed game entry individually, so I&#8217;ll make this a catch-all post, and collect them here. The classic instance remains <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48393\">Cakvinball, with Alasdair MacIntyre&#8217;s quote<\/a> a close second. Since chess remains chess no matter how many dimensions the board has, it&#8217;s a piss poor analogy for reality: Calvinball is a far superior game metaphor. And what a game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Kasparov on chess, dominoes ] . Dominoes falling, we all know, at least since Vietnam, are a choice metaphor for one thing leading to another, and chess, regular or played in 3 or 4 dimensions, is a common metaphor for the complexity of natsec issues. Here&#8217;s Kasparov: People keep asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56969,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56966\/revisions\/56969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}