Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To George Duke wrote on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 04:30 PM UTC:Polymath Ben Franklin was first North American chess writer with 'The Morals of Chess' (1779). At Paris in 1783 Franklin received letter from Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen, developer of automaton chess-player The Turk. Von Kempelen showed Franklin other inventions as The Turk defeated Franklin. [See ChessboardMath.] Now Franklin in autobiography recalls how he used Chess to learn Italian. He played with fellow students on the condition that the loser would have to learn pieces of Italian grammar before next game. Likewise, figures of speech and rhetoric are used to learn CVs this ChessboardMath2, and conversely the panoply of chessic art can easily help build vocabulary for language and logic. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID ChessboardMath2 does not match any item.