250 New Positions of the World Champion (1895-1912) Isidore Weiss in DraughtsWeiss, the pride of the French draughts masters, played his risky game averse to all theory and method. The more beautiful, the more complicated, the better, never cleanly finished or analytically correct, but delicate and sharp in subtleties. Thus arose the peculiar games or game fragments from which one could never determine one's real strength. What he accomplished came from the treasury of his resourceful brain. He knew he could rely on that