Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Training the Memory. [ARTICLE]

Training the Memory.

“Dr. Zukertprt, why is it that many good chess-players not only cannot play blindfolded, but are unable to comprehend how another man does it?” With a little shrug, the Doctor replied: “I suppose it is a difference in the powers of memory. My memory has a peculiar training. When I was 7 years old, and before I could read or write, I was able to demonstrate such a problem as the square of the hypothenuse, or to work out a simple equation entirely from memory. My godfather was a "professor of mathematics, and he had great faith in the value of training the memory. I myself believe that the memory may be trained in the’same way that we can train our bodies. My memory is good in other lines than chess. Whatever I read a few times I commit' to memory. I have not read Boman history since I was in the university; but I am ready to stand an examination in Boman history to-day. I believe I have forgotten none of the dates. I can play over now in my mind the games of chess that I played in the London tournament. lam the editor of the London Chess Monthly, and I compose nearly all my analytical articles and notes upon games of chess while traveling and with no board near me.”