Dec 03
Click for full imageScott B Comments: “Every move was checkmate” Sounds like an extremely short game to me.
Published 1970
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Scott B Comments: “Every move was checkmate” Sounds like an extremely short game to me.
Published 1970
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December 3rd, 2015 at 10:36 am
Gee, those two guys must’ve pissed off Roddenberry something shocking!
December 3rd, 2015 at 10:54 am
Playing chicken with a dragon? Or playing dragon with a chicken?
December 3rd, 2015 at 12:25 pm
A Flandry book also contained in this omnibus BAEN masterpiece. Robot dragons are always cool but…….BAEN!
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=10648
December 3rd, 2015 at 12:59 pm
That’s not a dragon. Look at the torso. That’s no rib cage, those are segments. That’s a prawn. A FrankenPrawn taking up sail skating or something.
December 3rd, 2015 at 1:11 pm
A Circus of Hells needs a Fireclown
December 3rd, 2015 at 1:13 pm
As with King of Argent we again see a weird conjunction of stupid chess rules and (in the pink sun here) the Mandelbrot Set.
December 3rd, 2015 at 1:29 pm
We are all just pieces in one big chess game. Those men are forked.
December 3rd, 2015 at 2:05 pm
@ScottB: there seem to be only six squares…so, yes, a rather short game. I imagine there must be quite a struggle to see who has the first move.
December 3rd, 2015 at 3:30 pm
If you fold that cruciform up it becomes a cube. Then you can roll a Red Sun and get an extra go. That gets you out of checkmate. If you roll a Seahorse Head you miss a go. Two Little Men in a Nutcracker sends you to the Matachin Tower (do not pass Go, do not collect 200 Drachms) unless you play your Get Out of Gyoll Free card.
What, you never played Gene Wolfe Monopoly as kids?
December 3rd, 2015 at 3:32 pm
A Circus of Hells needs a Juggler.
December 3rd, 2015 at 4:38 pm
It’s not a robot dragon.
It’s a robotic horse with wings replacing its front legs, meaning it has no choice but to rear back like that, otherwise it would fall over.
See? MUCH more logical.
December 3rd, 2015 at 4:47 pm
A CIRCUS OF TRUMPS
An infernal game of More-Demagogic-Than-Thou where every move was a Trumpmate.
December 3rd, 2015 at 4:48 pm
“Wanna play chess?”
“Nah… every move is checkmate.”
“Yeah.”
“Call of Duty?”
“Awright!”
December 3rd, 2015 at 5:24 pm
“Run, Earl! I can tell by the rearing wings that it’s about to drop a robot-dragon-horse-prawn doo-doo on us!!”
December 3rd, 2015 at 9:41 pm
A Circus of Hells needs an Elephant.
December 4th, 2015 at 12:09 am
@Bibliomancer: alas, teh elephants are VETOED
December 4th, 2015 at 12:29 am
OH NNOES! Teh LFNTz are VETOED TOO HARD!
December 5th, 2015 at 7:21 am
“Go on, say you’ll put another prawn on the barby, I dare you”
December 23rd, 2015 at 2:54 pm
I guess “every move was check” or “there is danger of checkmate at every move” just didn’t sound dire enough.
I’m pretty sure that the shortest checkmate possible is three moves, but if someone knows better, please correct me.
April 1st, 2016 at 5:03 pm
@HBw: Actually, there’s a “fool’s mate” that only takes two moves by each player.
In algebraic notation:
1. f3 e5
2. g4?? Qh4#