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flamingdragon
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A White Horse
« on: Nov 27th, 2006, 10:40pm » |
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A white horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest, who immediately disappeared from the landscape. Where did this take place?
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #1 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 11:47pm » |
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on a chessboard
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #2 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 2:19am » |
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I thought white horses jump over castles or rooks, not towers. But it must be my English.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #3 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 3:07am » |
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Hmm, in dutch it it literally translates to towers. Besides, they look like it, don't they?
And you could say the same for the other two. They'd be knight and bishop in chess terms. So clearly it's a description in other terms.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #4 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 7:20am » |
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True
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #5 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 2:04pm » |
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Yeah, "Tower" threw me off.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #6 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 4:08pm » |
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Well, the intent of the riddle is to throw u off.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #7 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 5:51pm » |
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Well then, I can change it.
A green man in a purple suit jumped over a brown brick thirty-three times, tackles a prince off the wall, then disappears.
Now figure that one out.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #8 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 6:20pm » |
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If u can explain to me how that relates to chess, then i'll admit ur right.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #9 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 7:13pm » |
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Since the english for the pieces are "Knight", "Rook", "Bishop", "Board", and not "Horse", "Tower", "Priest", "Landscape", I don't really understand why we are worrying about "Rook" vs "Tower" but not the others. If the riddle had been "A white knight jumped over a rook and landed on a bishop, who immediately dissappeared from the board", it wouldn't be much of riddle, would it?
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #10 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 7:14pm » |
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Exactly my point.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #11 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 8:12am » |
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Had you used chariot it would've been fine, but the Rook merely looks like a tower, which is based completely off looks rather than any real relation.
-edit- It mentions "tower", but "castle" would be much more descriptive. I could also say that it was a pile of stones since a castle is made up of stones.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #12 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 9:54am » |
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I disagree, cchris. I think the riddle was well-worded the way it was posted.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #13 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 10:27am » |
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on Nov 29th, 2006, 8:12am, cchris wrote:| Had you used chariot it would've been fine |
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Quote:| Another possible explanation is that rooks represent siege towers. |
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #14 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:10pm » |
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As I said, the article mentions "Towers", but "castle" would help people relate to it more. At least when I think of tower, I think of a wooden or metal structure, whereas when everyone thinks of castle, they think of a stone structure.
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Re: A White Horse
« Reply #15 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:53pm » |
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Castles generally aren't as mobile as siege towers though..
On the other hand, bishops generally don't walk diagonally either. So errr, well..
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