Ron's chess-playing skills (was Howgarts Clubs - Art, Music, and Chess).

[olivierfouquet2000]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "o_caipora" <o_caipora at y...> wrote:

> 
> Ron can't be a better chess player or logician that Rowling is. Maybe 
> he can be now, but while Rowling was writing the first book she may 
> not have had the easy access to chess masters she presumably does now.


I know this has been discussed before, but I'll try to settle a question about wizarding 
chess. I am a resonnably good chess player myself so I tried to figure out what the 
game between Ron and McGonagall's chess set looked like. After thinking about it for 
a while, I am 99,9% sure that :

_either Ron and the chess set are extremely bad player.
_either wizarding chess is completely different from ordinary chess.
_either JKR did not care too much and knows about chess but did not try to make it a 
plausible game (of course I am 99% sure that the later is true).

I would be happy to explain my evidence, but off-list as it has nothing to do with HP 
anymore.

All the best,

Olivier