CHESS-PLAYING TO-DAY (PART II)
This entry was posted on 1/9/2006 2:37 AM and is filed under World Chess History.
For one thing, chess has the reputation of being an intellectual game, and who
does not like to be the follower of that which is intellectual? It is, moreover,
one of the few games in which the players find themselves on a perfectly equal
footing at the start. The element of chance does not enter in; the one who plays
best wins. Further, though much has been said to the contrary, the game played
in moderation is a real recreation. Mr. Potter, writing in the "Encyclopaedia
Britannica," puts this very well. He says it "recreates not so much by way of
amusement, properly so termed, as by taking possession of the mental faculties
and diverting them from their accustomed grooves." Anyone who knows what it is
to have a mind worried by business or harassed by care of any description can
understand the value of a pastime which can do that.
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