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Some of the things ... sound like things our grandmothers would have told us: “Men will be boys. We let them play their little games with each other. We know it isn’t about the important things, but they think so. So we let them. We take care of them so that they can go on playing....” What grandma did not tell us is that men are capable of something altogether different.... But even though men are untapped wells of potential, they will not move forward if women continue to subsidize the status quo.
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)

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In many ways chess ... is very like philosophy. Both have long histories which most practitioners are aware of and frequently consult. The chess master is just as likely to be found replaying the past games of Morphy and Capablanca as the modern philosopher is to be found rehearsing the arguments of Descartes and Kant. Further, chess games, like philosophical problems, can often be sufficiently complex to defy complete analysis. It has been calculated that after only two full moves 71,852 legal positions can be reached, while the number of distinct forty-move games is the colossal figure of 25 x 10115. Chess is also similar to philosophy in possessing a number of long-standing unsolved problems. There is for white, however expert, no opening which will guarantee victory, and no response from black which can be relied upon to preserve him from defeat.
—Derek Gjertsen. Science and Philosophy: Past and Present, ch. 3, Viking Penguin (1989)