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Musings on Pure Play (2021)

Marko Mikael Marila
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The experiment reported here seeks inspiration from the interplay in chess between the limitations set by the rules and the playfulness afforded by the instance of playing the game. I replaced the chess pieces with everyday objects that are somehow personally or historically important and familiar to the player. With this experimental performance, I did not wish to point at anything outside the confines of the game, but rather explore whether a game of chess with random everyday objects as pieces is possible in the first place and if any significant discoveries could be made when playing in such a fashion. I treated the rules of the game simply as a starting place or a template, and while successful playing will require basic understanding of the rules of the game, I anticipated that paying attention to and spending time with the objects themselves would be more important.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsplay, games, pure play, chess, objects
date03/11/2021
published03/11/2021
last modified03/11/2021
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightMarko Mikael Marila
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1408138/1408137
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1408138
published inResearch Catalogue


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