Chess can be seen as a mental sport or an exercise in critical thinking, a science but it can also be regarded as an artform, with every game being a unique creation where the players create something that is distinctive and often elegant and sublime. 

The board is the chessplayer's loom on which they weave their creativity and express their personality and emotions. Great chess games are breathtaking works of art where beauty is found in the elegance of a perfect and inescapable solution to a complex problem.

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