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Diandra · Unfettered Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 390

Plot Point, So To Speak

Tien_Le

Diandra!!! These maps are awesome! Wonder if this is a constellation.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2002 10:32 pm

Diandra · Unfettered Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 390

Hmmm

**Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2002 10:35 pm

ngajengai · Boot Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 29

Thanks, Ozy! Very Happy

Hope this img thingy works:

[Nerd humor... what can I say?]

I could just kiss you! Embarassed

Okay. That's enough of that!

pjv

**Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2002 10:41 pm

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Diandra · Unfettered Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 390

Maybe it's this one...

**Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2002 10:41 pm

ngajengai · Boot Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 29

Diandra,

WOW!

"AWESOME" is the word!

Thank you!

I reiterate: WOW!

PJV

**Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2002 11:06 pm

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Ozy_y2k

watch out, ngajengai, you're gonna give me a big head with all this flattery. Embarassed

Here is more information on the guioco piano and/or the Evans (what I mistakenly identified before as the "Andersen") gambit, for anyone who is interested:

http://www.dwheeler.com/chess-openings/

While I hardly consider myself to be much more than a barely-functional chess player at best, I am intrigued by the potential deviation in standard opening strategy, and subsequent insight into Jim's character, that these two openings indicate (at least before all that nonsense about "cornering the White bitch" ruined what could have been a perfectly decent game).

On the one hand, the piano opening is considered to be a "quiet" opening -- i.e., one which does not result in a large exchange of pieces or pawns at the outset and which tends to be favored by slow, methodical players who prefer a protracted middle- and end-game with many avenues of attack remaining. Note that in this opening, unlike the Sicilian or other aggressive attacks, the center of the board is not immediately under attack due to the placement of Black's queen bishop reinforced by the queen's knight. White and Black take their sweet time in this piano opening, building long, boring looking, but powerful chains of pawn structures, which will ultimately determine the course of the middle game. This appears to be in keeping with Mr. Prufrock's apparent nature as a quiet, stubborn, determined sort of guy who would not call undue attention to his method of attack or investigation.

However, the Evans gambit, also allowed by this opening, is a MUCH riskier maneuver, which results in White (Jim) voluntarily sacrificing the pawn at b4 on move 4, so as to force Black's queen bishop away from the center and allowing White to develop a strong center with something like: 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 and then a castling king's side. This is essentially a strategy of forcing Black's hand (as most gambits are) and forcing Black to decline 4. ...Bxb4 which is a mighty hard target to pass up. If this was Jim's approach, he's got more guts than I would give him credit for, and also a bit of a hidden wild streak. Of course, we're talking about a man who voluntarily got "DEATH & TAXES" permanently etched into his back in 80-point nonremovable gothic font. Wink

So what the hell does any of this have to do with the ultimate puzzle? Not a damn thing as usual. Just me trolling about once more for a tasty bit of subtext where one probably doesn't exist. Smile

O

**Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2002 11:41 pm

Diandra · Unfettered Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 390

You're Most Welcome

**Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2002 11:52 pm

azrahn

That is interesting. gets the mind reeling.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 12, 2002 6:01 am

imbri

Looking at the locations, I tend to think that it's PM > AM. Of the known times that Jim was at Demonhead Flats, the only one that would be after he had the tracking device (from which Enoch got this info) would be when Dawn took him there. She picked him up at Sloman's which was after he was at Blackwell's and when he was in the neighborhood and saw the "Hey Dad, Hi Sport" bit. At least I think that's how it worked out.

12:03 PM Sheriff's Office
2:13 PM Blackwell's
4:02 PM Vicinity of Shadrack's
5:35 PM Vicinity of BRB's home
6:45 PM Push shops & restaurant
11:30 PM Sloman's
1:02 AM Road to Demonhead Flats
2:17 AM Demonhead Flats
4:57 AM Demonhead Flats
5:49 AM Demonhead Flats

**Posted:** Sat Oct 12, 2002 6:08 am

ngajengai · Boot Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 29

Gee, Diandra, I never thought of a draw in chess quite the way
you described in your pm!

But then my take on things is a little bit different...

In fact, they weren't really braced for me at the local chess club...

I don't know what all the fuss was about...
All I did was to jump up and grab the opponent's king
when I checkmated him,
yell *YESSSSssssss!* at the top of my lungs and spike him...
like a tiny black football into the carpet in a little private victory celebration...

I mean geesh! Priss-pots, all of 'em!
They didn't kick the hubby out, he was just too embarrassed to go back...

No. NOT really.
I've just become crazed with Pushdementia!

It's the long hours, the long endless hours or research and...

*GOINK!*

I just saw history change right before my very eyes...
TWICE! Confused

Hoo-boy. I probably need to come up for air...

NAAAAH! Laughing

**Posted:** Sat Oct 12, 2002 8:04 pm

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hankster · Guest

chess moves

**Posted:** Sun Oct 20, 2002 3:49 pm

chrisazy · Guest

evans gambit

**Posted:** Wed Oct 23, 2002 4:26 pm

Tien_Le

ooo, so maybe the final clue is going to be aired on The Wonderful World of Disney presents Cinderella.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 24, 2002 11:34 am

Guest · Guest

Cinderella...Peter Pan....What's next, Snow White?

**Posted:** Thu Oct 24, 2002 4:35 pm