DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

Southern Cross, Volume 8, Issue 31, 24 November 1900, Page 2

DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

The Aberdeen Weekly Press makes the following extract from an article on 1 The study of games of skill as an aid to logical thought ’ : —The novice in the game of checkers sees only the instant results of his hasty move, but as be gains insight into the game he finds another and another consequence involved, and he learns to sacrifice many a supposed advantage for the sake of ulterior issues. So in life the intelligent man, to the extent of his ability looks beyond the immediate effect he desires to produce to the more remote results that are likely to follow, and studies them calmly and dispassionately, * * * In a recent communication to the Leeds Mercury supplement, Mr Hynd expresses the opinion that by the term ‘ false or improper move,’ Anderson must have meant 1 the move made with intent to cheat.’ Mr J. A. Kerr, jnr., of Bristol and the draughts editor of the Glasgow Weekly Herald, objected to this view on the ground, that Mr Hynd cannot possibly know anything as to what were Anderson’s intentions in framing the rule. The objection is sound but the reason brought forward in support of it is obviously without force. The proper consideration is that the framing of the laws of a game is, ipso facto, debarred from entertaining the idea of deliberate cheating. His business is to provide reasonable and proper penalties for accidental offences. The deliberate cheat transgresses the social code, and the punishment entailed by transgression is social ostracism*