Politics is chess

Life is a kind of chess in which we have often points to gain

competitors or adversaries to contend with

and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events…

 

By playing at chess…we may learn foresight, circumspection and caution

 

Benjamin Franklin

 

If there are 9,183,421,888 ways to play the first nine moves

9,417,681 the first six, 72,078 the first four, 5,362 the first three

and 20 to play the first

are early moves more important than later?

 

A metaphor