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.