Those able to do this in War have achieved greatness, and the great at Chess-play are those who best have imitated that exactness with which Morphy employed this system on the Chess-board.
To those who imagine that Strategetic talent, as exemplified in Warfare, is different from Strategetic talent as exemplified in Chess-play, the following may afford matter for reflection.
“Frederic the Great was one of the finest Chess-players that Germany ever produced.”—Wilhelm Steinitz.
PRIME STRATEGETIC PROPOSITION
SECTION ONE