All else being equal, relative advantage in either branch of Prime Strategetic Means is sufficient to ensure victory in battle, and the proper use of such advantage for securing victory is outlined thus:
PRINCIPLE
Utilize advantage in Prime Strategetic Means to obtain the superiority in Numbers at the Point of Contact in an Offensive Battle; and to nullify the adverse superiority in Numbers at the point of contact in a Defensive Battle.
Between War and Chess there is a seeming incongruity, which is the basis of that doubt of the utility of Chess-play, so commonly held by laymen, and which fallacy few, even among proficients, are competent to combat.
This doubt most frequently is voiced by the query:
If Chess and War are analagous, why was not Napoleon a Master Chess-player and Morphy a great military Commander?
This query readily is answered in the words of Frederic the Great, viz.:
“To be possessed of talent is not sufficient. Opportunity to display such talent and to its full extent is necessary. All depends on the time in which we live.”
The Strategetic talent possessed in common by Morphy and Napoleon, in both was brought to perfection by long and expert training.