Whenever I See an Illegal Position On a Chess Board... [Derived Headline]

The HeraldJuly 31, 2010

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Whenever I see an illegal position on a chess board I feel compelled to correct it. In the starting position, the king and queen are often on each other's squares, as are the knights and bishops, while a white square is often the left corner. When I see such things, the feeling I have is not of a teacher wanting to correct a spelling mistake, but more like the melancholy of unrequited love.

In most of my life, I am no stickler for rules, but it is the rules of chess that give the game its beauty, intelligence and harmony.

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Whenever I See an Illegal Position On a Chess Board... [Derived Headline]

A couple of nights ago, my family sat down to a pub dinner near a life-size outdoor chess set. There were a group of kids around six years ...

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