Also bearing in mind the irony of Cicero, who regarded himself fortunate in that he had not fallen victim to services rendered his countrymen, it suffices to say:
The true Chessic dictum in regard to the double evolution of the King and Rook should read:
“_The King of Castling should deploy in one move to that point where, as the Base of Operations, it mathematically harmonizes with that Strategic Front, which is, or must become, established._”
The change in the present form of Castling, herein suggested, should be made in the true interests of the Royal Game.
The instant effect of such change will be:
1. Largely to increase the defensive resources both of White and Black;
2. To minimize the handicap on the second player, due to White’s advantage of first move;
3. To permit open play on the Queen’s side of the board and thus provide a broader and more resplendent field for Strategetic genius.
In all our modern-day mis-interpretations of the ethics of Chess and our characteristic Twentieth Century looseness of practice as applied to Chess-play, perhaps there exists no greater absurdity, than that subversion of ordinary intelligence, daily evinced by permitting a piece which cannot move, to give check.
It is a well known and in many ways a deserved reproach, cast by the German erudite, that the mind of the Anglo-Saxon is not properly developed, that it is able to act correctly only when dealing with known quantities, and is inadequate for the elucidation of indeterminate things.
In consequence, they say, the argumentative attempts of the Anglo-Saxon are puerile; the natural result of a mental limitation which differs from that of monkeys and parrots, merely in ability to count beyond two.
Surely it would seem that a very young child readily would sense that:
A Chess-piece, which by law is debarred from movement, is, by the same law, necessarily debarred from capturing adverse material; inasmuch as in order to capture, a piece must move.
Nevertheless consensus of opinion today among children of every growth and whether Anglo-Saxon or German, universally countenance the paradox that:
A piece which is pinned on its own King, can give check _i.e._, threaten to move and capture the adverse King.