If the game is chess, when do the pawns on both sides figure it out?

Deja Q

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Mon May-31-04 10:24 AM
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If the game is chess, when do the pawns on both sides figure it out?

If the pawns on both sides realized they were being used, what would they then do? Would the pawns from both sides try to team up? How would one side know the other feels the same and, indeed, how would one side convince the other that the pawns are not the enemy but those telling the pawns what to do?

Forgive me, I was never any good at chess... Even Holly plays it better... :-)

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Feanorcurufinwe

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Mon May-31-04 10:29 AM
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1. The pawns are only pawns by definition.

They never figure anything out. Even if they advance to the eighth rank and are promoted they remain nothing but tools of the King.

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kalian

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Mon May-31-04 10:31 AM
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2. They never can figure it out...and if they do....

they still have to deal with the Rooks and Knights on their OWN SIDE.
Its a question of "loyalty" and the elites will usually side with
the king and queen.
Revolutions only happen (can happen) when a certain starta of society
permit the lower class to "revolt" and make "changes". In a way,
the pawns are STILL being used. Its always been that way and will
continue to be so... It all depends on your price...

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Deja Q

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Mon May-31-04 10:42 AM
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3. Which makes me wonder if the 60s counterculture movement ever had a chance

Obviously people were making money off the music and clothing styles of the time. Did the hippies realize that and become the Reaganauts of the 1980s? :puke:

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Feanorcurufinwe

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Mon May-31-04 11:20 AM
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4. In the 80s

Edited on Mon May-31-04 11:36 AM by Feanorcurufinwe

we sold tiedyes at Dead concerts

But in chess, all those colors don't exist - it's just black and white. A good game, but I think it is a poor metaphor.

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TrogL

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Mon May-31-04 11:33 AM
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5. I've won games on good usage of pawns

They are very important pieces.

In real life, the small and unpowerful can still make important contributions. I spent most of the weekend stuffing political flyers in mailboxes (we've got an election in progress in Canada). Last weekend it was planting signs. I wouldn't expect the Candidate to do this him/herself (I'm working for two different people) - they've got their own work to do (banging on doors).

Four years ago, my candidate won partly because she carried a couple of precincts she never expected to win - the one's where I'd been doing the "dirty work".

Everybody makes a contribution.

Don't get me started about janitors.

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