ONCE AGAIN ON THE ‘QUEEN SACRIFICE’ NOTION - PART TWO OF THREE

1. The difficulty of my project in this present set of three short essays – namely, that of showing how the “queen sacrifice” figure in chess anticipates certain figures and patterns discernible in the prima facie distinct field of contemporary politics – is eased somewhat, perhaps, by the fact that the best-known modern work of chess theory dealing specifically with “the art of sacrifice” –…