Ever the optimist, from my desire to improve my chess game I look at chess videos and books. I lately came upon a bit of advice from a somewhat eccentric writer of yesteryear named Franklin K. Young who tried to apply battlefield principles to chess. I am compelled to share it with you, so that you can benefit from the fruit of my labors. That’s how much I care for you. Here we go!
“Always deploy so that the right oblique may be readily established in case the objective plane remains open or becomes permanently located on the centre or on the king’s wing, or that the crochet aligned may readily be established if the objective plane becomes permanently located otherwise than at the extremity of the strategic front.”
This makes me choke up a little each time I read it.
Essentially it means:
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