fundamental yet plausible errors, been crowded into so little
space.

The Napoleon of the future, the great conqueror, will NOT be a
chess player. The real Napoleon whom we know had no love for
chess or any other waste of time, or any other form of self-
indulgence.

Chess is no game for a Napoleon, or for any other man who wants
to embody real accomplishment in the story of his life.

CHESS IS A WEAK GAME, FOR IT ADMITS ALL KINDS OF RULES AND ALL
KINDS OF FOREORDAINED IMPOSSIBILITIES.

The man who makes the world's great success will not be bound by
rules. The great men of the world are great because they refuse
to ADMIT impossibilities.

The man who plays chess has two knights, and these knights he can
only send two squares in one direction and one square in another,
or one square in one direction and two squares in the other. His
two bishops can only move diagonally across the board, one on the
white and one on the black. His castles lumber along on straight
lines. His king cannot be touched or taken, and the game ends
when the king is in fatal danger. The queen, in the dull game we
call chess, can do almost anything.

But Napoleon was really a great man, and the game of life that he
played was very different from the chess game.