Nobody’s Perfect

Singularly enough, we find in the last issue of the Nuova Rivista degli Scacchi (No. 67 for July and August, 1886), a paper written by Signor S. Dubois, under the caption, “How many errors makes in a game the greatest player?” in which the writer, after examining very ably and at lenght the matter of this question, comes to the conclusion, in accord with the opinion expressed by the great French master, Labourdonnais, that, generally speaking, a player, be he ever so strong, will not make in a game fewer than two or three mistakes, slight or great. We are much of the same opinion. Brooklyn Chess Chromicle, No. 1, October 15, 1886, pp. 1-2