THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR CHESS.
[TO TER EDITOR OF TES "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Your correspondent, "Queen's Bishop," asks for confirma- tion of his opinion that good chess-players are good draughtsmen. My father was a first-rate chess-player ; at the beginning of this century, when so many foreigners took refuge in England (many of them well skilled in this game), he played much with them, and in a tolerably large circle few could beat him, but I never knew him attempt any kind of drawing. He was an excellent mathematician, however, which, I suppose, implies the possession of the faculty of " form " and "order." His son, who does not inherit this talent, does not either inherit his ability for chess- playing. Possibly your correspondent may think this corrobora- tive of his view.—I am, Sir, &c., It. E. C.
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