Subject: Re: Chess board wrong?
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1991-01-21, 15:18
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jan21.104013.995@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu> jak@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
> >In article <0094308A.F1CF6CA0@ELM.CIRCA.UFL.EDU>, statman@oak.circa.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid) writes:
>> >> Hi there,
>> >> 
>> >> I noticed that the chess board at the end was wrong.  The knight and
>> >> pawn on white's (whyndam's?  The b---ard.  Coop should be white)  were missing.
>> >> I suppose it's possible that they were knocked over when the (male) body
>> >> and accessories were moved in, but it seems odd that they weren't lying on
>> >> the board and that none of the other pieces were knocked over.  I don't mind
>> >> if this is just a continuity error, but with TP you can never tell what 
>> >> has meaning and what doesn't.  
>> >> 
>> >> chuck d. kincaid
>> >> statman@stat.ufl.edu
> >
> >  Also, if I remember correctly, Earle's first move was P-K4, and
> >white still had its king pawn sitting in its starting square at K2.

We might as well forget the chessboard game going on. On the board in
Truman's office, black has two bishops on white squares.

Either this is Wyndham's way of telling Coop that he's going to
cheat (or that the board game is meaningless), or it's yet another
continuity glitch.

-- Dave Mack