Of course there's math in chess. Not "academical" math, of course, but...when you calculate how many attackers or defenders one square has, you're doing math.
It's hard to imagine how could you do this operation without the basic knowledge of numbers and how we use it for counting. The same ocurrs in basically all other human activities.
Furthermore, semiologists sustain that all human thinking is based on language. No thinking or logics could be done without language in our head. Words and gramatics make the basic pieces and rules of which thinking is made of.
So, chess has a little of math and a little of language on it, intrinsically.
As a product of human's mind, you can't leave out this two extraordinary tools we humans come out with.
Math and language have modeled anything around human activity in history. Maybe it's in our nature, and chess can't escape our nature.
It's hard to imagine how could you do this operation without the basic knowledge of numbers and how we use it for counting. The same ocurrs in basically all other human activities.
Furthermore, semiologists sustain that all human thinking is based on language. No thinking or logics could be done without language in our head. Words and gramatics make the basic pieces and rules of which thinking is made of.
So, chess has a little of math and a little of language on it, intrinsically.
As a product of human's mind, you can't leave out this two extraordinary tools we humans come out with.
Math and language have modeled anything around human activity in history. Maybe it's in our nature, and chess can't escape our nature.