T R Robinson High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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Chess, an intricate and interesting game, ojffrs a comparative setting for the 1970 story of The Robinson Knights. Simulating warfare, chess is probabbf the world's oldest game of pure skill. One theory is that it was devised to divert men from waging actual war. With this idea Robinson is proud to be identyied T Played on an ordinary checkerboarah chess uses all the squares, a szgnwcant dmfrence. Robinson realizes that all areas have . purposes, that extraordinary values open evolve from ordinary situations. T On a chessboard, a brilliant attack sometimes wins swift success, but the game is usualbf won through many small victories. Robinson appreciates genius, patience, perseverance, and perspiration. Each chessman has a special way of moving. The Robinson Knight studies objectives, chooses direction and moves to achieve desired results. Chessmen include the knight ofchivalry, symbol of courage, honor, truth, loyalgf, and service. The Robinson Knight is given a guide, a goal, a standardjhr learning to live. Like wise men of old who fathered chess, Robinson Knights have a vision of an Age of Peace, when earth 's peoples will solve their problems and resolve their diwerences in a wiser way than war. The chessboard game oflw goes on. 1-r