What then is this immutable military system? What are its text books, where is it taught and from whom is it to be learned?
In answer it may be stated:
At the present day, private military schools make no attempt to teach more than elementary tactics. Even the Governmental academy curriculum aims little higher than the school of the battalion.
Scientific Chess-play begins where these institutions leave off, and ends at that goal which none of these institutions even attempt to reach.
Chess teaches to conduct campaigns, to win battles, and to move troops securely and effectively in the presence of and despite the opposition of an equal or superior enemy.
Military schools graduate boys as second-lieutenants commanding a platoon. Chess graduates Generals, able to mobilize Corps d’armee, whatever their number or location; to develop these into properly posted integers of a grand Strategic Front and to manoeuvre and operate the army as a Strategetic Unit, in accordance to the laws of the Strategetic art and the principles of the Strategetic science.
By precept and by actual practice, Chess teaches what is NOT taught in any military school—that least understood and most misunderstood; that best guarded and most invaluable of all State Secrets—
The profession of
GENERALSHIP.