The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for June 16, 2024

Took me a minute

Very clever

I’m bad at Chess and, unfortunately, watching, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, on Netflix didn’t help.

Kites fly path match the pieces

Playing chess as the wind blows?

What does the Queen’s string look like?

Got it! Took me a while!

The Queen’s kite is all over the place.

Actually, the knights move is one forward and one diagonal or one diagonal and one forward.

Way over my head!

An insider joke for chess players? I wonder how many people get it. My brother was rather avid when we were young (during what may have been the last great American vs Russian matches) and it rubbed off on me some, but then I realized it was a matter of a sort of brute-force memorization and observation, got the short end of a demonstration of that a couple times, and then learned about the computer programming that was developing and confirmed that strategy meant nothing, and lost all interest.

The pawn’s kite wasn’t long enough to stay afloat.

Let’s go fly a kite up in the atmosphere

Genius. Love it.

And Charley Brown is King?

I was surprised to discover that the FIDE Laws of Chess define the movement of the night in a very interesting way: “The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal.”

I think the Queen should be flying two kites, one as shown, the other as shown for the bishop. The King should be shown similarly, but with very short strings.

Very clever

Check…

The Charlie Brown opening is never good strategy.

Clever!

Once a King, always a king. But, once a Knight’s enough.

Ha! Brilliantly done! :-)

The black side only has dark and stormy knights.

I know next to nothing about chess, but I got it. Very clever indeed!