Twin Peaks Usenet Archive

Subject: Re: Chess Moves
From: kumasawa@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ice)
Date: 1991-01-16, 20:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

lputnam@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Lee P Putnam) writes:
> > Can someone please send me all of the chess moves already shown?

	   WHITE	BLACK
	   Earle	Cooper
	   -----	------
	1. P - K4	P - Q4
	2. P - Q4

The board:
		      BLACK
	 -------------------------------
	| r | n | b | q | k | b | n | r |
	|-------------------------------|
	| p | p | p |   | p | p | p | p |
	|-------------------------------|
	|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
	|-------------------------------|
	|   |   |   | p |   |   |   |   |
	|-------------------------------|
	|   |   |   | P | P |   |   |   |
	|-------------------------------|
	|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
	|-------------------------------|
	| P | P | P |   |   | P | P | P |
	|-------------------------------|
	| R | N | B | Q | K | B | N | R |
	 -------------------------------
		      WHITE

Strange that Earle is playing the White Lodge, and Cooper the Black Lodge.

I looked through the GNUchess file of various openings, and found none that
had P-K4 responded to with P-Q4.  Relieving, in a way, that Cooper doesn't
play like GNUchess.  Perhaps I should now find those games that start with
1. P-Q4, P-Q4; 2. P-K4, if there are any, in the GNUchess book.

Looks like Earle is opening with a Gambit of some sort, by leaving his KP
unprotected.  I expect that Cooper, even though I don't know whether it's
the best thing to do or not, will Decline.  I imagine that capturing pieces
in a game with Earle could have quite violent correlations in the real world.

- Carl Johnson