The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-03
Memory La t:heas Playing

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Wonderful rs are the feats of chess.
players. who can play game eEsa.series
ofgsnles without seeing the board, there is
nothing really remarkable in them.
When once mastered, the trick is not
only fairly easy Of performance but the
fact that the process, is purely ,nental
rather facilitates than impedes the &C.
ton of the mind. l.a r ss
TO the "bliadasisled1 ehesspIayer
there is present q mental picture of the
board with the pieces in position. He
can change the position Of the men as
easily az he can think, and after he has
onee masteFe5. the difficulty at fixing The
mental picture, it is distinctly before
him. Syme players, who do not in their
s"mn1on process of memory use Pictufe
phantoms, work out the moves rs alge.'
iTaical propositions are occasionally
woFked, by PhantOms of sound but, rs q
rule, ehessplayers are mental picture
teaslezs, and can at pleasure call up any
One of several pictures of boards as they
last conceived them. "a
Tie NEST difficult feat, and one which
very few mental chess players can &C
cOmplish, is TO play two or three games
simultaneously, the moves made by their
opponents being told them in close &C.
1aence and their own moves being di-
ected after ALI the reports of the pro-
redings of their opponents have been
-eceiyed. 9.
Thus, if there be several players
az inst the one mental player, he must
he told and remember What each of his
aayersaries lIas done before he begins to
give the instructions for his several
counter-movea. In this exploit the m0st
perfect development Of the mental
faculty Of distinct picturing and the dis
placement and recall of mental pieturea
at will is exhibited. The pr0digsous diff
6culiy of the feat can Gully be realized
in lhe attempt 20 perform it Even the
expeIt blindfolded chess pIayer can raEesl
~ succeed in accomplishing the persl
t'sinance NE have attempted 70 describe
7sse Beeak 81 nay In s.sIAOn. .
Wordsworth 5 noble sonnet, written in
!Hle early. morning on Westminster
bridge, i scarcely more vivid and i'm
pFessiye than q similar description of the
break Of day in London given By Mr..
Black IN he "Sanrise. Brand, after q
night of mental torture, looks ont from
hia widow oa the embankment and the
Thames: Somehow OF other be. ceased
these restless pacings of HIS, end was at
HAeted to the window, though be gazed
bat absently on the sloW change taking
place outside--the WoFld-Old wonder d
de new day rising in the east. Up inE
that steelygray glidesa soft and Luna
nous saffron brown, it spreads and widens,
egainas i the far dome Of. 81. Pani's be-
comes beautiful velvet purple.
A planet that had been golden when.
IN the dusk near the horison has now
sailed IN into the, higher heasen, and
Ghines clear, silver point And now,
isten-the h,lslsed and mafIsed sound in
The Gilenes-tbe great city is awakening
from its sleep. There Is the bark Of q
dog, the rumble Of cart Is heard, and
eth the safEron-Fed spreads and kinilles IN
the east, and the dame of St. PaHRs Is
richer IN hue than ever; The river, be
tween the bIaek-gray bridges shines uoW
with cold light, and the gasIamps have
grown pale. And then the final flood OF
glory wells up ia the eastern skies. and
all around him the higher buildings catch
here sad there swift golden CLEAN; the
sunrise Is declared; there l. , new day
born for the SONS and daughters Of men, :
Previous to 1883 there wers no muIea
IN this country. Neither were there any
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