[HPforGrownups] Re: Chess Flint?

[Chris Dosset]

No: HPFGUIDX 19375

Robert Carnegie wrote the following:

"But how does Ron have only one legal move?  From any square, a
knight has at least two moves.

Robert Carnegie, exposing ignorance
Glasgow, Scotland"

Not true, I am afraid.  A knight may have anything from eight to zero legal moves, depending on the position of yours and your opponents pieces.  If, for example, a knight stands on a square in the corner of the board and the two possible squares it could move to are occupied by your own pieces, then it has zero legal moves.  Sorry if this is pedantic.

Chris
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: rja.carnegie at excite.com 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:45 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Chess Flint?


  --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susan Hall" <shall at s...> wrote:
  > >Ron:  "I take one step forward, and she'll take me - "
  > >
  > > and then: "He stepped forward and the white queen pounced."
  > 
  > If there was only one legal move that the knight could make at that point,
  > and the chess board obeyed the ordinary rule that one a player has touched a
  > piece they have to move it, even if they suddenly realise that they have
  > made a mistake, the queen would be legally entitled to take Ron the instant
  > he moved, though it is better etiquette (and psychology) to wait till the
  > piece actually lands on the disputed square.

  But how does Ron have only one legal move?  From any square, a
  knight has at least two moves.

  Robert Carnegie, exposing ignorance
  Glasgow, Scotland

  "I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
  office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
  Stupid Things Overheard)



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