It occurs to me that composing music and playing chess share something in common: In neither one is there room for “oh, for no reason,” or “just because.” In chess there is always a best move. And not seeing it can cost you the game. When composing, everything you decide to play, record, edit, or in any way manipulate is a conscious choice. Not paying attention to every detail is the difference between a “successful” composition and not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It occurs to me that composing music and playing chess share something in common: In neither one is there room for “oh, for no reason,” or “just because.” In chess there is always a best move. And not seeing it can cost you the game. When composing, everything you decide to play, record, edit, or… Continue reading Music and Chess<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiferet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}