Excerpt from Chess Sparks, or Short and Bright Games of Chess A spark must, of course, be brief as well as bright, and so these Chess Games are limited to twenty moves before a winning position is obtained. It may be thought that such games cannot be worth atten tion, because they must be necessarily more or less badly played. This may be partly true, but it is equally true that the length of a game affords no proof of the soundness of the play. A game without any mistake on either side is generally dull and uninteresting ...
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Excerpt from Chess Sparks, or Short and Bright Games of Chess A spark must, of course, be brief as well as bright, and so these Chess Games are limited to twenty moves before a winning position is obtained. It may be thought that such games cannot be worth atten tion, because they must be necessarily more or less badly played. This may be partly true, but it is equally true that the length of a game affords no proof of the soundness of the play. A game without any mistake on either side is generally dull and uninteresting. Moreover, it may be just as useful, and some times nearly as difficult, to detect the error in a short game as in a long one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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