Language that develops around abstract boardgames contains concepts which don't compress any information, they just correspond to situations
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any benefit that does arise from such words (e.g. "develop" a pawn) arises from having a brain with lots of verbal horsepower
we map situations to arbitrary metaphors and develop musculoskeletal responses to these metaphors that help us process faster
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The feat of a chess master is representing chess in terms so holistic and involved that even a general-purpose nervous system can play it
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