I"m told that during an international game of chess (国际象棋), many beautiful moves could bc made on a chessboard. In a decisive 1 in which he was evenly matched with a Russian master 2 , Marshall found his queen under serious attack. There were several ways of 3 , and since the queen is the most 4 piece, spectators (观众) thought Marshall would naturally move his queen to 5 .
Deep in thought, Marshall used all his time to consider the 6 . He picked up his queen, paused, and placed it down on the most 7 square of all—a square from which the queen could be 8 by any one of three enemy pieces.
Marshall had sacrificed (牺牲) his queen—an unthinkable move. Everyone else was 9 .
Then the Russian, and the 10 , realized that Marshall had actually made a 11 move. It was clear that no matter how the 12 was taken, the Russian would soon be in a 13 position. Seeing this, the Russian admitted his defeat.
When spectators recovered from the 14 of Marshall"s daring, they showered the chessboard with money. Marshall had achieved 15 in a very unusual and daring fashion—he had 16 by sacrificing the queen.
To me, it"s not 17 that he won. What counts is that Marshall had broken with standard 18 to make such a move. He had looked 19 the usual patterns of play and had been willing to consider an imaginative risk on the basis of his judgment and his judgment alone. No matter how the game 20 , Marshall was the winner.