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Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS: Black and red chess pieces in PFJM: "Could the outfit Charles II wore during his escape from Zembla in a very conspicuous red be related to such Red, and not Black, chess pieces? Could this substitution ( black/red pieces ) indicate some particular chess-related clue?
Stan Kelly-Bootle: ...regardless of the two colours of the pieces, the terms W (White) and B (Black) are used to denote the opening player and her opponent respectively. White is by far the most common physical colour for the opening player. The opposing colour is usually Black but can be any distinctive, darker shade e.g., Red as a literary 'conceit' (cf Lewis Carroll!)... VN asks "White to play and [achieve some stated goal. e.g., mate in two; draw; lose!]" Not to be confused with general chess problems ... Black's best move...
JM: S K-B added a PS: "Guess who's coming to dinner tonight? Prof. Victor Fet!" and one can never be too careful with his messages, so I checked wikipedia and got: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton.The movie concerns Joanna Drayton, a young White American woman (Houghton) who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. Prentice (Poitier), an African American she met...
A very interesting play but I didn't get the point (reference) and my question remains unaswered in one aspect: if the physical colors of the chess pieces don't alter the structure of chess competitions,semaphores depend of them and literary figures,too.
I would like to know if others were also struck by Charles II in a Red disguise in relation to the "solus rex" problem.
Black and White have other special meanings for Russians of the Nabokov era (and the Reds, of course). Could the King's disguise allude to any extraneous political situation?
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Stan Kelly-Bootle: ...regardless of the two colours of the pieces, the terms W (White) and B (Black) are used to denote the opening player and her opponent respectively. White is by far the most common physical colour for the opening player. The opposing colour is usually Black but can be any distinctive, darker shade e.g., Red as a literary 'conceit' (cf Lewis Carroll!)... VN asks "White to play and [achieve some stated goal. e.g., mate in two; draw; lose!]" Not to be confused with general chess problems ... Black's best move...
JM: S K-B added a PS: "Guess who's coming to dinner tonight? Prof. Victor Fet!" and one can never be too careful with his messages, so I checked wikipedia and got: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton.The movie concerns Joanna Drayton, a young White American woman (Houghton) who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. Prentice (Poitier), an African American she met...
A very interesting play but I didn't get the point (reference) and my question remains unaswered in one aspect: if the physical colors of the chess pieces don't alter the structure of chess competitions,semaphores depend of them and literary figures,too.
I would like to know if others were also struck by Charles II in a Red disguise in relation to the "solus rex" problem.
Black and White have other special meanings for Russians of the Nabokov era (and the Reds, of course). Could the King's disguise allude to any extraneous political situation?
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