Chapter I: Front Matter

CHESS
GENERALSHIP

BY
FRANKLIN K. YOUNG

_Vol. I._
GRAND RECONNAISSANCE.

“_He who first devised chessplay, made a model of the Art
Militarie, representing therein all the concurrents and
contemplations of War, without omitting any._”

“_Examen de Ingenios._”

_Juan Huarte, 1616._

“_Chess is the deepest of all games; it is constructed to carry
out the principal of a battle, and the whole theory of Chess lies
in that form of action._”

_Emanuel Lasker._

BOSTON
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.
1910

_Copyright, 1910_,
BY FRANKLIN K. YOUNG.

_Entered at Stationers’ Hall._

_All rights reserved._

“_Chess is the gymnasium for the mind--it does for the brain what
athletics does for the body._”

_Henry Thomas Buckle._

GEORGE E. CROSBY CO., PRINTERS, BOSTON, MASS.

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MINOR TACTICS OF CHESS $1.00
An eminently attractive treatment of the game of
Chess.--_Scientific American._

MAJOR TACTICS OF CHESS 2.50
In this book one finds the principles of strategy
and logistics applied to Chess in a unique and
scientific way.--_Army and Navy Register._

GRAND TACTICS OF CHESS 3.50
For the student who desires to enter the broader
channels of Chess, the best books are by FRANKLIN
K. YOUNG: his “Minor Tactics” and his more elaborate
“Grand Tactics” are the most important productions
of modern Chess literature.--_American Chess Magazine._

CHESS STRATEGETICS ILLUSTRATED 2.50
We know no work outside of the masterpieces of Newton,
Hamilton and Darwin, which so organizes and systematizes
human thought.--_Chicago Evening Post._

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_“There are secrets that the children_
_Are not taught in public school;_
_If these secrets were broadcasted,_
_How could we the masses rule?_
_If they understood Religion,_
_Jurisprudence, Trade and War,_
_Would they groan and sweat and labor--_
_Make our bricks and furnish straw?”_

_Anon._

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TO
The Memory
OF
EPAMINONDAS
THE INVENTOR
OF
SCIENTIFIC WARFARE

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_“I leave no sons_
_To perpetuate my name;_
_But I leave two daughters--_
_LEUCTRA and MANTINEA_
_Who will transmit my fame_
_To remotest posterity.”_

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_“For empire and greatness it importeth most that a people
do profess arms as their principal honor, study and
occupation.”--Sir Francis Bacon._

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_“There is nothing truly imposing but Military Glory.”--Napoleon._

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_“The conquered in war, sinking beneath the tribute exacted
by the victor and not daring to utter their impotent hatred,
bequeath to their children miseries so extreme that the aged have
not further evil to fear in death, nor the youthful any good to
hope in life.”--Xenocles._

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_“War is an element established by the Deity in the order of
the World; perpetual peace upon this Earth we inhabit is a
dream.”--Von Moltke._