Chess as a Language Description Model

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Chess as a Language Description Model

Arte breve e introducción muy necesaria para saber jugar al axedres, con ciento y cincuenta juegos de partido; intitulada al serenísimo y muy esclarecido don Johan el tercero, príncipe de las Spañas. Por Lucena, hijo del muy sapientísimo doctor y reverendo prothonotario don Johan Ramírez de Lucena, embaxador y del consejo de los Reyes nuestros señores, studiando en el preclarísimo studio de la muy noble cibdad de Salamanca.

This last aspect, the neurotic one, seems to be admitted by Lucena himself when he remarks, ‘because I know what it is’ about the disturbances chess can produce in the intellect and in the memory. As in many other cases, following Lucena’s example, a neurotic or even psychotic personality has been explained by the simple procedure of blaming chess and its intrinsic stress. Much more sensible would be to blame social and familiar conditioning factors as responsible for psychic symptoms. Chess could rather be a compensation for many hidden traumas, and the prevalence of Jewish chess players can be interpreted in this way.

Et ego, magister Johannes clericus, existens sub reverencia et mercede predicti domini regis, transtuli istos libros, qui Libro Razielis sunt coniuncti, de latino in ydioma castellanum cum maiori reverencia et diligencia quam scivi et intellexi secundum intellectum et potestatem quam michi concessit Creator omnium bonorum (...)

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