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The movement of the knight has long been associated with creativity and strategic surprise (Knight's move thinking: appreciated or deprecated, 2012). Curiously, but most appropriate to this argument, "knight's move thinking" is defined by the medicalprofessionas athought disorder denoting a lack of connection between ideas, namely a loosening of associations.
Considered to be similar to derailment of thought, it is characterized by odd, tangential associations between ideas that lead to disruptions in the smooth continuity of speech. The association between ideas is interpreted to be illogical, notably wandering between various trains of thought. The Knight's move is then a metaphor for the unexpected, and illogical, connections between ideas. The illogicality of the loosening of associations, which is found inschizophrenia, is contrasted with the flight of ideas which characterises hypomania. "Knight's move thinking" therefore features in the early diagnosis of schizophrenia.
The knight is however part of the emblem for the US Psyops as a traditional symbol of "special operations" signifying the ability to influence all types of warfare. It featured as the name of a German military operation (Operation Rösselsprung) to kill or capture Josip Broz Tito at Drvar during World War II. With respect to business strategy, Richard Pech and Greg Stamboulidis make the point that:
Utilizing a chess metaphor, they each deployed a knight's-move strategy, leaping forward and sideways in a manner that has caught, and continues to catch their linear-thinking competitors by surprise. (How strategies of deception facilitate business growth, Journal of Business Strategy, 31, 2010, 6)
In a discussion of the current disruptive dynamics of global governance, termed "monkeying" for the purpose, a case was made for Reframing "monkeying" in terms of Knight's move patterns (2011). Both the creative and problematic implications of the argument are developed and illustrated separately (Swastika as Dynamic Pattern Underlying Psychosocial Power Processes: implicate order of Knight's move game-playing sustaining creativity, exploitation and impunity, 2012).
It is however the ancient Chinese game of Go Weiqi, otherwise known as Encirclement Chess, is suggestive of further clues to be derived from the geometry of the construction of the 2D Fibonacci spiral approximation. The successive squares in that construction, distinctively proportioned according to the golden ratio, embody an encircling process consistent with a 3-step pattern like that of the knight's move. Whether understood as achieving a kill (capturing some form of otherness), or achieving an insight ("capturing light"), it is the successful engagement with otherness (even closing a deal) which is highlighted.
The subtlety of the encircling process of go, in contrast to that of chess, is usefully highlighted by the analysis of the Vietnam War by Scott Boorman (The Protracted Game: a wei-ch'i interpretation of Maoist revolutionary strategy, 1971). Of relevance is the study by Li Ma (Xiangqi vs Chess: the cultural differences reflected in Chinese and Western games, Open Journal of Social Science, 9 March 2020).
Given the contrast between the 2D square and the 3D cube, the argument can be taken further in the light of the variants of three-dimensional chess. In that case any encircling engagement is understood in terms of:
a rook moves through the six faces of a cube in any rank, file, or column.
a bishop moves through the twelve edges of a cube.
a knight makes a leap in 3D, comparable to one step as a rook followed by one step as a bishop, thereby enabling it to control 24 different cells from the centre of the game board.
Q: Whose move is I.T. again? Got a CLEW?
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