Cooperative Games
So many of our modern games (and the homo sapien way of thinking up to this point) has been based on competition, instead of cooperation. There is style of game (more popular in Europe) called a “cooperative game.” For example, all the players are figherfighters, and they have to work together to get as many people out of a burning building as possible.
Humanity is only going to survive climate change if we can learn to cooperate in some fundamental ways. Survival of the fittest? Maybe cooperation is more of a survival trail than competition.
In chess, what if the goal were something other than checkmating the king ~ something that taught the value of peace instead of war?
What if the goal was to surround the king, so he has no legal moves (backed into a corner), but he’s not in check. We could call that the “Geneva Convention” in chess, negotiating for peace.
