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Clara and her father were both chess-players, and at the ti Madge the game for

about six months

'Check!' said Clara

'Check! after about a dozen o on; you

always beat me I should not mind that if I were any better now than

when I started It is not in me'

'The reason is that you do not look two moves ahead You never say

to yourself, "Suppose I move there, what is she likely to do, and

what can I do afterwards?"'

'That is just what is io beyond the next hts fly away, and I am

in a muddle, and my head turns round I was not born for it I can

do what is underand the forecasting are the soul of the gaainst armies and calculate the

consequences ofBesides,

calculation is useless, for when I think that you will be sure to

enerally do not'

'Then what ood and the bad player?'

'It is a gift, an instinct, I suppose'