{"id":1510,"date":"2026-02-24T07:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/?page_id=1510"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:36:00","slug":"affisch-39","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/exhibit\/affisch-39\/","title":{"rendered":"affisch-39"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Morals of Chess\u201d av Benjamin Franklin<\/span><\/h3>



Benjamin Franklins ess\u00e4 fr\u00e5n 1786, \u201cThe Morals of Chess\u201d, omdefinierade spelet som ett viktigt verktyg f\u00f6r personlig utveckling och intellektuell dygd.<\/span> Franklin ans\u00e5g att schack var mer \u00e4n ett tidsf\u00f6rdriv; det var en \u00f6vning i f\u00f6rutseende, omtanke och f\u00f6rsiktighet - egenskaper som han ans\u00e5g vara n\u00f6dv\u00e4ndiga f\u00f6r framg\u00e5ng i b\u00e5de privatlivet och den offentliga diplomatin.<\/span> Under hela upplysningstiden bes\u00f6kte Franklin ber\u00f6mda schackkaf\u00e9er som Caf\u00e9 de la R\u00e9gence i Paris.<\/span> Dessa utrymmen fungerade som den tidens ursprungliga sociala n\u00e4tverk, d\u00e4r spelet underl\u00e4ttade rigor\u00f6sa debatter och utbytet av revolution\u00e4ra id\u00e9er och \u00f6verbryggade v\u00e4rldarna inom vetenskap, politik och filosofi.<\/p>

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Franklins fascination f\u00f6r spelets intellektuella gr\u00e4nser ledde honom till ett historiskt m\u00f6te med den Mekaniske Turken, v\u00e4rldens mest k\u00e4nda schackspelande automat. Under en match i Paris 1783 testade Franklin sina f\u00e4rdigheter mot maskinen, som var ett exempel p\u00e5 upplysningstidens besatthet av det mekaniska f\u00f6rnuftet. Turken reste s\u00e5 sm\u00e5ningom till USA och fann sitt slutliga hem i Peale Museum (och senare Chinese Museum) i Philadelphia. Den f\u00f6rblev en viktig del av Pennsylvanias vetenskapliga kultur i \u00e5rtionden innan den gick f\u00f6rlorad i en brand 1854. Detta arv av m\u00e4nsklig uppfinningsrikedom och maskinintelligens f\u00f6rblir en grundl\u00e4ggande ber\u00e4ttelse f\u00f6r utst\u00e4llningar som utforskar sk\u00e4rningspunkten mellan historia, spel och intelligensens utveckling.


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Fotot f\u00f6rest\u00e4ller Benjamin Franklin som spelar schack. Konstverk av Edward Harrison May, 1867<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Morals of Chess” by Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin\u2019s 1786 essay, “The Morals of Chess,” redefined the game as a vital tool for personal development and intellectual virtue. Franklin believed that chess was more than a pastime; it was an exercise in foresight, circumspection, and caution\u2014qualities he deemed essential for success in both private life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":743,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions\/1516"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}