The Philosophy of Chess

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Whittaker and Company, 1857 - 112 Seiten
 

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Seite 62 - But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Great men are not always wise ; neither do the aged understand judgment.
Seite 32 - Truth is its handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion ; safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train...
Seite 33 - It is that centre round which human motives and passions turn; and justice, sitting on high, sees genius, and power, and wealth, and birth revolving round her throne, and teaches their paths, and marks out their orbits, and warns with a loud voice, and rules with a strong hand, and carries order and discipline into a world which but for her would be a wild waste of passions.
Seite 36 - the player who makes the fewest mistakes will invariably win the game," though a truism, is worthy of a passing notice, as it involves two affirmations corresponding with the inferences just drawn, viz., that there is a right way and a wrong way, and that when the right way is taken, there is only a negative result.
Seite 15 - Warburton, himself a mathematician, says of mathematical studies that, ' in making a man conversant only with matters in which certainty is the result, they unfit, or at least do not prepare him, for sifting and balancing what alone he will have to do with in the world — probabilities ; there being no worse practical men than those who require more evidence than is necessary,' or, indeed, of a kind of which the subject is not capable.
Seite 108 - It has long appeared to me, that this species of covetousness will, in all probability, prove the eternal overthrow of more characters among professing people than almost any other sin ; and this because it is almost the only sin •which may be indulged, and a profession of religion at the same time supported.
Seite 14 - British Chess Review." The remarks are as follow : — " The question " hag often occurred to us, and we doubt not to others "also, — how well is chess played? We mean, what is '"the disparity between the force of the ablest player ever "known, and the mathematical perfection of which the " science of chess is undoubtedly susceptible ? To what " the inequality amounts it would be difficult, if not impos"sible, to say; but it must be something very consider
Seite 17 - It is true, as we have already noticed, that chess in its "nature admits of the same determinate certainty as '• mathematics; but as it is also true that absolute perfection " of play is possible only by the exercise of a degree of " prescience, and a depth of...
Seite 15 - which so grave an authority as Bishop Warburton pronoun" ces an inherent defect in mathematics, as regards practical " mental training, is precisely reversed in chess, and consti" tutes, therefore, in our opinion, the principal value of the " game as a mental exercise and preparative for the contentions " of actual life. In the study of mathematics there is always " an inevitable result, to be reached by a train of fixed "and consecutive reasoning which admits of no deviation. •" In chess, on...
Seite 25 - a game won by fine play tends to the advancement of the science ; a victory due to an opponent's blunders counts for nothing.

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