Chess is an inelegant ruleset. The <i>en passant</i> rule is an extremely obvious bodge, castling is a special case and the rule wording had issues as recently as the 1970s. A sibling has already mentioned go, which is far more elegant and humanistic (I understand it involves substantially more left-brain use). High-level chess as practiced today involves a lot of rote memorization which is very anti-human (part of the reason computers are better at it now).<p>&#x2F;Played chess reasonably seriously at one point and I still enjoy it occasionally, but let&#x27;s be honest about its flaws