[HPforGrownups] Re: Chess Flint?

[Chris Dosset]

No: HPFGUIDX 19266

Hi, I am Chris, a new member and this is my first posting so be gentle with me!

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Hardenbrook 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 4:42 AM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Chess Flint?


  At 12:20 AM 5/23/01 +0000, rja.carnegie at excite.com wrote:
  >I don't know chess contest rules, never learned to play at all well,
  >so I don't know whether the move is official as soon as Ron leaves
  >his home square.

  The official rule is that as soon as you touch a piece, you must move it,
  and when you let it go, that's the move and cannot be taken back.  The
  only known instance of a tournament player violating this rule and getting
  away with it is Garry Kasparov (Slytherin in a past or future life?), in a
  match against Judith Polgar (Seeker for the Hungarian Quidditch team in a
  past or future life?) -- The referee (Snape in a past or future life?) ruled in
  Kasparov's favor, even though most people agree he took back the
  move after letting go of the piece.

  >As to the arrangement of pieces, at the start of the Christmas holidays 
  >JKR unfortunately says wizard chess is "exactly like
  >Muggle chess except that the figures were alive."

  But that's normal Wizard chess, which McGonnegal's chess seems to
  deviate from, i.e. the pices are faceless; and perhaps some form
  of "Fairy Chess" rules was adopted to make it all the harder.  Maybe
  McGonnegal saw that exhibit at the Pompidou Center in Paris in
  the mid-80's that included a life-size chess game with rules no one
  could figure out.

  >Or it's on PC, perhaps.  There's been at least one animated character
  >chess game, but I forget the name.

  _Battle Chess_, which I never liked.  Hopefully the Hogwarts version
  will be less violent.



                           -- Dave

  I love the idea that McGonnegal used a rare version of "faerie" chess where the back ranks are randomized, to make things more difficult.  It's certainly recognized in the chess world that opening theory would all go out of the window in this version of the game. This would solve the problem concerning the bishop being next to the rook at the start of the game.  
  As for Judith Polgar being Hungarian national Quidditch team seeker in a previous/future existance, this seems inspired!  Maybe her sisters Zusa and Zsophia would also make the team as beaters?  Kasparov would seem to be a Slytherin at heart too, cunning and calculating, but this applies to a lot of chess players in my experience.

  thanks for some facinating discussions guys

  Chris



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