Black and White part one

Sixty-four squares on the chess board. It is upon that field that the classic battle of white versus black plays out. Those sixty-four squares alternate between black and white in a checkered pattern, balanced with thirty-two squares bearing each color.

Which means that, ironically, "Black Territory" has eight white squares and "White Territory" has eight black squares.

While this is a non-issue regularly overlooked and barely worth noting, it is infinately significant in a consideration of the duality of black and white on the chess board and in life.

In the Western World we have come to associate white with good and black with bad. Sadly, life is simply not that "black and white." There is a duality at play in most everything in our lives. The black team must embrace white and the white team black... with one exception.

The bishops. They adamantely sit on their one color and do not deviate. You might be compelled to think of them as the metaphorical angel and devil on the shoulder, whispering their advice and influence, BUT that would be accepting the idea that white is good and black is bad.

And that is simply not the case.