DEPTH OF CHESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2011, 9 June 1885, Page 2

DEPTH OF CHESS.

Some chess writer has said:—"The question kg often occurred to me, and I doubt not to others also, Howyejlis chess played ?' I ineaii what Is tlle'dis'parity between the force of' the ablest player ever known, and the mathematical j perfection of which the science of chess is undoubtedly susceptible? To what the inequality may amount it would be difficult, if not impossible, to say/but it must be Bomefliliig/ye'ry' qimsiderabjo',' Jji' yefejenc.e'tq tips, I pe 'tymrd jt' reni'a,rked try a yery fine chess player—now no more -that in his qpinjpn ' fto hqard,' U, the resources, of the eoujd, in the Jong run, afford the odds of R knight to the strongest player in the world; and if itbe considered what an enormous .advantage it must be never by any chance to stumble or slip down, but always to make tho best possible move in. every oircumstance of tho game, the odds may be taken, I imagine, as under, rather than over, the mark." The inimitable resources of the game of chess,.have always excited the wonder and admiration of the students who have gone the deepest into its hidden depths. Human intellect can never fathom it. It is, like the sky, studded with brilliants. Tlie pure powerful the l (f' p. deeper into the heart pf 'th'e"gaii]q" iqaj such a njjnd gq, A§ we haye hefqre' exprised it, tlie piio qf c.heaa possesses eharms all its. votaries, from the merest novice to --the most profound master, It unfolds beauties to all degrees of mind, The novice finds as much delight in his simple combination, which is to lead to a capture in two or three moves, as the master does in a more profound study. But the. attempt toarrive at a mathematical calcula

tion how near a player can come to fiF'c!ig|?VH,'to think, &\ ' gQesfion'i|riderfakihg. \:ty\ $ |at''tJje strongest liyihj pjayer%n cijme within' a knight of its possibilities, is assuming too much. If they are within a knight of its full powers, suppose that some chess Achilles, more powerful even than waj Morphyin his time, wliqnjieqon' quered th'o o'hess worldj should suddenly appear, and in-his mighty power vanquish our great masters at the odds of a knight,; would 'he have .fathomed the, game to its greatest' depth's ? We think not. ,fe thinlc even auph a ..player: would' be - still 'a away." We' think its resources are unfathomable—Hartford Times.