CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: Strategy -- Part Three: Tactics -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - THE FUN OF CHESS -- A Didactic Tale of Two Chess Sensibilities -- Chess and Its Variants -- The Value of Each Chess Piece -- The Movement of Each Chess Piece -- The Algebraic Chess Notation for Recordng Moves -- Different Variants of Chess in the World -- Chess, and the Relationship between Strategy and Tactics -- Strategy -- Tactics -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Mental Argument -- The Natural Argument -- The Social Argument -- The Cultural Argument -- The Mediative-Variative Argument -- The Mediative-Variative Theory of Chess -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples -- Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis -- Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO Strategy -- CHAPTER 2. STRATEGY AND ITS INADEQUACY -- The Foresight of Strategy -- Strategy and the Mind -- Chess Expertise, and Psychological Explanations -- Chess Games, and the Development of Mental Skills -- Strategy and Nature -- Chess Origin, and Its Relationship with Cosmology -- Strategy and Society -- Computer Chess, and the Impact of Technology -- Chess Games, and the Influence of Social Structure -- Strategy and Culture -- Chess and Morality.

Chess Development, and Its Cultural Variants -- The Uncertainty of Strategy -- PART THREE Tactics -- CHAPTER 3. TACTICS AND ITS ARROWNESS -- The Usefulness of Tactics -- Tactics and the Mind -- The Game-Tree Complexity of Chess, and the Mind -- Chess Blindness, and the Appeal to Reason -- Tactics and Nature -- Chess, Symmetry, and Mathematics -- Chess, Analogy, and Physics -- Tactics and Society -- Chess Tactics, and the Use of Computers and Online Chess -- Tactics and Culture -- Tactical Exercises, and the Question of Beauty -- Chess Handicap, and the Tradition of Odds-Giving -- The Limitation of Tactics -- PART FOUR Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION - THE FUTURE OF CHESS -- Beyond the Science of Chess and the Art of Chess -- Other Relevant Principles -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle -- 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle -- 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle -- 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle -- 9th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle -- 10th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle -- 11th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle -- 12th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle -- 13th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle -- 14th Thesis: The Post-Human Variation -- Towards the New Mind Games -- Three Great Future Transformations of Mind Games -- Path-Breaking Implications -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.