Subject: Re: Chess Moves
From: kumasawa@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ice)
Date: 1991-01-20, 18:01
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

bls@u02.svl.cdc.com (Brian Scearce) writes:
> >Have we seen Earle's second move?

Yes, when Cooper got Earle's package, the one that included both P-Q4 and
the voice tape.  The tape said something like "See how my response to yours
leads us to a classical confrontation?"  Apparently, Cooper had already made
his first move, but we didn't get to see it until it got printed in the
paper the next day.  But Earle apparently knew what move Coop made, even
before it got published.

Two theories on that.  1) Earle knows Coop very well and knew what his
response would be ("Hobgoblins, Dale ...").  2) Coop made his move on his own
little chess board, and Earle has some way of finding out what move Coop
made!  This makes sense, in that Earle would have had to have a reliable way
of getting Cooper's moves in order to play the game at all.  The classifieds
method seems like a pain for Earle.  I'd rather have a spy (a pawn, as it
were) to check out Coop's chess board and report back, if I were Earle.

We seem to be seeing Earle's responses to Coop's moves before we see Coop's
moves.  Cooper has had time to play his response on his chess board, yet we
simply haven't seen what it was.  Earle has just made his third move, in
combination with a killing, as a response to Coop's unseen second move.  The
killing seems to imply a PxP.  Of course, now we have two possibilities
there as well.  1) Earle's third move was PxP.  The victim must be
representative of Cooper's pawn.  But Cooper didn't seem to know him.  2)
Coop's second move was PxP!  Perhaps Coop innocently took Earle's
unprotected KP, without realizing the consequences.  Earle had to kill one
of his own pawns (perhaps the first spy on Cooper's chess board) in order to
make reality agree with the game.  Earle's third move will be indicated on
the chess board in front of this captured pawn.  We will then find out if
Cooper's second move was indeed PxP.

Oh, BTW, since I said I would look this up as well, the GNUchess book also
hasn't heard of any openings with 1. P-Q4, P-Q4; 2. P-K4.  (As you recall, I
already looked up 1. P-K4, P-Q4; 2. P-Q4, with no success.)

- Carl Johnson