Ancestors

Written by kæt on 2025-01-20 at 22:54

Apparently there's about 4000 castles in the UK, and 3000 knights, so only 3/4 of a knight per castle. Very disappointing.

With a King and a Queen that gives our back rank a strength of about 30,000 points. The second rank must be worth about 60,000,000, though.

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Written by Colin Watson on 2025-01-21 at 10:25

@chiffchaff Don't forget there's also on the order of two million rooks

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Written by kæt on 2025-01-21 at 10:32

@cjwatson 500 per castle! That's going to make things complicated. 😄

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Written by Adam on 2025-01-21 at 17:16

@chiffchaff @cjwatson a mere handful of bishops though

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Written by kæt on 2025-01-21 at 17:28

@pseudomonas @cjwatson There's about 140 bishops, as far as I can tell.

This is how the whole thought process began in my head, on reading about the existence of the bishops of Fulham, Ebbsfleet, Stepney, Stratford, Islington, and, ffs, Willesden.

"Good Lord", I thought, in a very ungodlike manner, "Are there also bishops of Balham, Ilford, and Shooter's Hill? Is the Church of England like the pre-Pepys navy, with more than one admiral per ships? How many bishops are there?"

And on it went. 😄

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Written by Adam on 2025-01-21 at 19:49

@chiffchaff @cjwatson I'm not sure whether suffragan bishops are valid for chess purposes.

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Toot

Written by kæt on 2025-01-21 at 21:20

@pseudomonas @cjwatson What about flying bishops? Maybe they would be too powerful, jumping like knights?

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Descendants

Written by Colin Watson on 2025-01-21 at 21:31

@chiffchaff @pseudomonas Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Superbishop!

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