[HPforGrownups] Re: Chess Flint?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 19026

At 06:03 PM 5/19/01 -0700, Barbara Purdom wrote:
>Perhaps the real problem with
>getting past McGonagall's chess set is that the pieces
>were already arranged in such a manner that only a
>grand master could have worked out how to win.

Possibly McGonnegal (and Ron) have read the book _The Complete
Chess Addict_, which on page 206 describes "Reverso" chess, a
variation in which the bishop and knight's starting positions are reversed...
The idea being that even if John Q. Death Eater is a Grandmaster, he
would be thwarted, because now all conventional opening theory is
down Moaning Myrtle's toilet.  (Unfortunately, it looks like Voldy read
the book too.)

Now if only someone would tell how it can be that a superlative
player like Ron is still calling the rooks "castles"...  :)



                         -- Dave