Exaggeration of the century ??

Ignoring book theory, Deschapelles believed that everything anyone needs to know about chess could be learnt in three days, and , comparing the two games< chess and whist >, he said,'Chess, in the end, contains only one single idea, which an organised mind can easily grasp. On the other hand, whist is so complicated that it requires many years just to understand how complicated it is.'

The man who made this rather bold statement is Alexandre Deschapelles. He was considered the unofficial world chess champion from 1800 to 1820. 

Nice game. And all I know is that chess is a real hard game to master.

Here is a short article on Deschapelles.

Many of the things we take for granted today were created by their fertile minds.