Excerpt: “I do not claim to be an authority on either the history or
the practice of chess, but, as the poet Gray observed when he saw his
old school from a long way off, it is sometimes an advantage not to
know too much of one's subject. The imagination can then be exercised
more effectively. So when I am playing Capablanca (or old Robinson)
for the championship of the home pastures, my thoughts are not fixed
exclusively upon the "mate" which is threatening; they wander off into
those enchanted lands of long ago, when flesh-and-blood knights rode
at stone-built castles, and thin-lipped bishops, all smiles and
side-long glances, plotted against the kings who ventured to oppose
them. This is the real fascination of chess."
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ISBN
9783987449772
Publisert
2024
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Otbebookpublishing
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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