Chess also teaches that it doesn't matter how much you lose, as long as the other guy lost even more; a good lesson for warriors, perhaps, but not so much for modern times, where we compete less by destroying and more by building things.<p><pre><code> Every gambler knows that the secret to surviving
Is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep</code></pre>