My Chess Everyday

In the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, Chess was a part of noble culture; it was used to teach war strategy and was dubbed the "King′s Game". Gentlemen are "to be meanly seene in the play at Chestes," says the overview at the beginning of Baldassare Castiglione′s The Book of the Courtier (1528 AD). However, he goes on to say that Chess should not be a gentleman′s main passion. Castiglione′s Explanation

Some two hundred years later, during the Age of Enlightenment, an American statesmen by the name of Benjamin Franklin held quite a different view in regard to Chess. He believed that it was more than a game, and that it could be used as a tool for personal development. Franklin′s Perspective

We are now in the Information Age, and with the rise of the computer you will find that Chess has entered a whole new dimension. Today Chess is the quantifiable measure of strength in the epic battle of intelligence between Man and Machine. Chess on the internet has almost entirely succumbed to the mechanical nature of this fight, a fight which many agree has already been decided. Here at MyChessEveryday we seek to break this pattern by highlighting the class and elegance of Chess. In these pages you will find both original content and the best of what′s on the internet, presented in simplicity and style.

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“And what say you to the game at chestes? It is truely an honest kynde of enterteynmente and wittie, quoth Syr Friderick. But me think it hath a fault, whiche is, that a man may be to couning at it, for who ever will be excellent in the playe of chestes, I beleave he must beestowe much tyme about it, and applie it with so much study, that a man may assoone learne some noble scyence, or compase any other matter of importaunce, and yet in the ende in beestowing all that laboure, he knoweth no more but a game. Therfore in this I beleave there happeneth a very rare thing, namely, that the meane is more commendable, then the excellency.”

~ Baldassare Castiglione

“The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn:
I. Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action...
II. Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations...
III. Caution, not to make our moves too hastily...”

~ Benjamin Franklin