Subject: Re: Chess board wrong? From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) Date: 1991-01-22, 16:03 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1991Jan22.181303.1319@ns.uoregon.edu> rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu writes: > >In article <119434@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes: > >[commenting on a previous article] >> >>I don't believe Lynch and Company know anything about chess other than >> >>that it's supposed to be a battle of wits. And it's rich with metaphors >> >>(sacrificing pawns, the king must die, etc). However, in all my >> >>"chess deals", I never heard of the opening 1. P-K4 P-Q4. >> >>I don't believe anyone of any strength would play this. >> >> > >The opening, '1. P-K4 P-Q4',is known as the Center Counter Game and is very > >ancient, but not much thought of these days. '2. P-Q4' is completely off the > >wall. I discussed this in a previous posting, but it doesn't appear to have > >propagated outside our local net. I'm trying to figure out where the idea that the first move in the game was 1. P-K4 P-Q4 came from. Wyndham Earle's first move (that I saw) was P-Q4. That's what was written on the card that came with the tape. (Yes, I'm sure, I went back and checked the tape.) Unless Coop is playing white and he made the P-K4 move, to which Earle's P-Q4 is the reply? If so, when did Coop start the game? And then, in his newspaper add, he plays P-Q4, which would represent a transposition into the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit? I thought the newspaper move was Coop's reply to Earle's P-Q4, so the game would be: 1. P-Q4 P-Q4 2. ...whatever was supposed to be on the board in Harry's office Please explain, I is so confused. -- Dave Mack