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

[Aurelius Orionus]

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> Geoff:
> Speaking as someone who was sufficiently good many 
> years ago to hold down a board position in my
College 
> team, I find it difficult to see how someone can 
> reconstruct the game in PS from the sketchy evidence

> provided. Only on about six occasions does the 
> narrative refer to a specific move and, often, the 
> move is vaguely described. Then we have comments
that
> Ron darted round the board fending off white's 
> attacks or that several pieces were taken. I don't 
> think even my logic could put together the game.

Relatively new member to the forum, and this thread
caught my eye also, probably because I am somewhat
interested in chess and as a fan of Ron and
chess-playing!Ron, I was shocked to read all this
mumbo-jumbo about him being horrible when in the books
he is clearly made out to be a very good chessplayer.

I agree with your assessment that there is very little
in PS that could be pieced together.  Actually the
narative in PS makes it sound like Ron kicks a bit of
butt.  As you mentioned above, he was down a lot of
pieces and decided to go around and clean up a bit,
which doesn't happen much in chess. :)







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