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. YOUNG’S CHESS WORKS 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._ * * * * * _“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._ * * * * * TO The Memory OF EPAMINONDAS THE INVENTOR OF SCIENTIFIC WARFARE * * * * *