The Columbian Magazine

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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 or 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 effects of prudence or the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

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Topic

Chess

Author

Benjamin Franklin

Source

The Morals of Chess The Columbian Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1786 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "The Morals of Chess." The Columbian Magazine, Dec. 1786.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "The Morals of Chess." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.