three Pawns or two minor pieces for a Rook and one Pawn as long
as Queens and minor pieces are on the board, as with a piece
ahead the opponent mostly succeeds in winning through a direct
attack against the King before the superiority of Pawns becomes
dangerous.

In trying to place the pieces on squares where they have as much
mobility as possible individual thought is required with each new
game as it depends altogether upon the moves of the opponent
which lines can be opened for Bishops, Rooks and Queen and where
a good field of action can be secured for the Knights. However,
it is possible to give a few rules which common sense tells us
must hold good in the majority of games if both players play
well. Of course, if a player makes bad moves in the opening, that
is, moves which do not aim at a speedy mobilization of all
pieces, then the opponent may soon have a chance to win the game
with moves which are not in accordance with those common sense
rules either but which force an immediate issue in a maneuver of
a kind that ordinarily does not occur in an opening but is
characteristic of the middle game. This is a point which the
majority of Chess players overlook. They argue that--granted the
value of general principles of strategy, which will greatly help
to build up a safe position--cases occur in which a move may win
which is not according to principles, and that, therefore,
following the trend of a certain combination which seems
profitable, is advisable even if the general principles are
violated.

Even a Chess master once said, that generalities are of no use in
Chess and that it is necessary to figure out every move in all