CHESS
GENERALSHIP
BY
FRANKLIN K. YOUNG
Vol. I.
GRAND RECONNAISSANCE.
“He who first devised chessplay, made a model of the Art Militarie, representing therein all the concurrents and contemplations of War, without omitting any.”
“Examen de Ingenios.”
Juan Huarte, 1616.
“Chess is the deepest of all games; it is constructed to carry out the principal of a battle, and the whole theory of Chess lies in that form of action.”
Emanuel Lasker.
BOSTON
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.
1910
Copyright, 1910,
By Franklin K. Young.
Entered at Stationers’ Hall.
All rights reserved.
“Chess is the gymnasium for the mind—it does for the brain what athletics does for the body.”
Henry Thomas Buckle.
George E. Crosby Co., Printers, Boston, Mass.
YOUNG’S CHESS WORKS
| Minor Tactics of Chess | $1.00 |
| An eminently attractive treatment of the game of Chess.—Scientific American. | |
| Major Tactics of Chess | 2.50 |
| In this book one finds the principles of strategy and logistics applied to Chess in a unique and scientific way.—Army and Navy Register. | |
| Grand Tactics of Chess | 3.50 |
| For the student who desires to enter the broader channels of Chess, the best books are by FRANKLIN K. YOUNG: his “Minor Tactics” and his more elaborate “Grand Tactics” are the most important productions of modern Chess literature.—American Chess Magazine. | |
| Chess Strategetics Illustrated | 2.50 |
| We know no work outside of the masterpieces of Newton, Hamilton and Darwin, which so organizes and systematizes human thought.—Chicago Evening Post. |
“There are secrets that the children
Are not taught in public school;
If these secrets were broadcasted,
How could we the masses rule?
If they understood Religion,
Jurisprudence, Trade and War,
Would they groan and sweat and labor—
Make our bricks and furnish straw?”
Anon.
TO
The Memory
OF
EPAMINONDAS
THE INVENTOR
OF
SCIENTIFIC WARFARE
“I leave no sons
To perpetuate my name;
But I leave two daughters—
LEUCTRA and MANTINEA
Who will transmit my fame
To remotest posterity.”
“For empire and greatness it importeth most that a people do profess arms as their principal honor, study and occupation.”—Sir Francis Bacon.
“There is nothing truly imposing but Military Glory.”—Napoleon.
“The conquered in war, sinking beneath the tribute exacted by the victor and not daring to utter their impotent hatred, bequeath to their children miseries so extreme that the aged have not further evil to fear in death, nor the youthful any good to hope in life.”—Xenocles.
“War is an element established by the Deity in the order of the World; perpetual peace upon this Earth we inhabit is a dream.”—Von Moltke.