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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."
| ISBN-13 | 9783987449772 |
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| ISBN-10 | 3987449772 |
| List Price | $1.99 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 127 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2022-11-24 |
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