"The
Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities
of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and
strenghtened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions for life
is a kind of Chess, in which we have points to gain, and competition or
adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good
and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or want
of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn:
First, Foresight...
Second, Circumspection...
Third, Caution...
And lastly, We learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged
by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs the habit of hoping
for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources."
Quote by Benjamin Franklin- about Chess on 1779 |
