Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1918 — War Strategy and Chess. [ARTICLE]

War Strategy and Chess.

The affinity between strategy and chess, recqgMzed by Napoleon, is not very surprising, notes the London Chronicle. The game seems to have chrystalllzed out of some old —perhaps preMstoric—military systeqj akin to that overthrown by Alexander at the Hydaspes. Of that battle Arrian has left us a most spirited picture. In which we can now recognize a singular touch of modernity—the long line of Indian elephants wading, tanklike, into the Macedonian Phalanx Probably at its birth chess was a branch of military education rather than a form of amusement; and the various early changes in the game, of which we have record, were doubtless attempts to keep the Instruction up to date and abreast with current alterations In armament and tactics.