![]() E-mail Or visit the GAMBIT web site at Edited by Graham Burgess Typeset by Petra Nunn Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Books, Trowbridge, Wilts. For all other enquiries (including a full list of all Gambit Chess titles) please contact the publishers, Gambit Publications Ltd, 69 Masbro Rd, Kensington, London W14 OLS. E-mail: USA: BHB international, Inc., 41 Monroe Turnpike, Trumbull, CT 066 1 1, USA. ISBN 1 901983 34 X DISTRffiUTION: Worldwide (except USA): Central Books Ltd, 99 Wallis Rd, London E9 5LN. A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication data is available from the British Library. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being im posed on the subsequent purchaser. Probably I should rewrite it as an essay.First published in the UK by Gambit Publications Ltd 2000 Copyright © Gambit Publications Ltd 2000 The right of John Emms to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Now knock various theories of poetic language and meaning against this case and watch them fall to pieces. The idea: consider the algebraic notation of a classic chess game, the so-called "Immortal", as a poem. This is the sequel, although it's stand-alone. The other is "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Theory For Life". Reti, Modern Ideas in Chess This is the second of two mock-Platonic dialogues I wrote back in the mid-aughts. It lies in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game dominating the inanimate pieces with which the game is carried on, and giving them the breath of life. Now we see wherein lies the pleasure to be derived from a chess combination. Hence it comes that the risk of material, and the victory of the weaker material over the stronger material, gives the impression of a symbol of the mastery of mind over matter. A combination composed of a sacrifice has more immediate effect upon the person playing over the game in which it occurs than another combination, because the apparent senselessness of the sacrifice is convincing proof of the design of the player offering it. ![]()
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