CHESS; AND THE GAME OF LIFE."

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13983, 14 August 1909, Page 6

CHESS; AND THE GAME OF LIFE."

I am not a great chess player, but I enjoy a game. It occurred to me that there is a certain similarity between life and the game of chess, me difiereftt values of the pieces, correbponding to different types of people and their varied worth. Then there is the offensive and defensive gameLike men again. Some •<> strong in personality and 'character that the? carry everything before them ; resolute in attack, confident of themselves, and winning battles with apparent ease. Others so weak, with a kink in thair nature, playing the defensive game. Irresolute, timid of the enemy's attack, uncertain of nothing so much as themselves. These are the people who have a claim on our sympathy, playing to win but anticipating defeat. Lend such a helping hand when you can. Then, too, how important is every move ; a false move may lose the game. O the fatal moves of life! You have never made one, you say? You fortunate being; you ought to be in Heaven, where they make no mistakes. Wouldn't you give something if a part of your life could be lived orsr again ; if you could retrieve some false move made, some fatal step taken, some sinful indiscretion, and recover the life lived in the far-off country? 'Are there no pages in your history that you would like to tear out? Ah! who dare say there are not? Now let us look at the different figures on the chess board and see what tbeyhsve to teach us eonceruiug life. First, then, there is the