Possessed of the invaluable privilege of making the first move in the game, knowing that no move should be made without an object, understanding that the true object of every move is to minimize the adverse power for resistance and comprehending that all power for resistance is derived from facility of movement, the student easily deduces the true object of White’s initial move in every game of Chess, viz.:
PRINCIPLE
To make the first of a series of movements, each of which shall increase the mobility of the kindred pieces and correspondingly decrease the mobility of the adverse pieces.
As the effect of such policy, the power for resistance appertaining to Black, ultimately must become so insufficient that he no longer will be able adequately to defend:
- 1. His base of operations.
- 2. The communications of his army with its base.
- 3. The communications of his corps d’armee with each other, or,
- 4. To prevent the White hypothetical force penetrating to its Logistic Horizon.
To produce this fatal weakness in the Black position by the advantage of the first move is much easier for White than commonly is supposed.
The process consists in making only those movements by means of which the kindred corps d’armee, progressively occupying specified objectives, are advanced, viz.:
- I. To the Strategetic Objective, when acting against the communications of the adverse Determinate Force and its Base of Operations.
- II. To the Logistic Horizon, when acting against the communications between the adverse Determinate and the adverse Hypothetical Forces.
- III. To the Strategic Vertices, when acting against the communications of the hostile corps d’armee with each other.
To bring about either of these results against an opponent equally equipped and capable, of course is a much more difficult task than to checkmate an enemy incapable of movement.