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Do waterfalls play chess? and other stories
- billforsternz 15y agoI must admit each and every chapter description wooshed way over my head. Hopefully this means that this stuff is not pitched at the intelligent layman, the alternative explanation being that I am unintelligent. I am pretty sure that waterfalls don't play chess though. And I know the author doesn't. A middlegame position with white's king on e3, supplemented with a knight on f1, a rook on e2 a queen on g3 and in particular a black king sitting between squares, but maybe on e5, while not illegal is so unlikely as to hurt a chess player's eyes. This is a common meme actually; People who use chess graphics in advertisements, TV, films, photo shoots etc. never seem to ask a chess player to set up something that makes sense. I suppose I could just be grateful that at least the board's orientation is correct. I get the strong impression that this happens less than 50% of the time in such situations, although that of course defies common sense.