Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for February 07, 2019

Looks like the rowdies are out early today…

It’s not a backward, it’s a strategically planned withdrawal. Planned to survive another day.

Well that is certainly a very rude (even if accurate) comment about Rodney.

Given Rod’s “success rate” in battle, I wouldn’t imagine him to be a very skilful chess player.

I don’t know. Like most ‘officers’ maybe he directs the fight from the rear. Probably not though. When you lead Id-iots, it is best not to get in front of them.

BURN!!!

Knight moves….

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy

Out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy

Workin’ on mysteries without any clues

Workin’ on our night moves

Rod and Sir Robin.

If you retreat fast enough you can circumnavigate the Earth and take them from behind.

I love chess but it’s hard to find opponents.

Zing!

I guess Rodney’s not an emu…

TMI!

One high ranking Russian chess player was once asked what his favorite chess piece was. He reportedly said: “The Knight. I can move in eight different ways, all of them crooked!”.

And like the knight, Rod can jump over the fighting…

Chess hecklers are the worst!

One ‘simple’ rule that sometimes causes confusion is the rule that the King cannot move into check, that is onto a square on which he could be captured by a piece of the opposite color. A result of this rule is that a king cannot capture the king of the opposite color, because for that to happen the king to be captured would have to have moved into check. A king can capture any piece of the opposite color on any adjacent square, so long as he does not move into check by doing so. I have known people to say that because a king cannot capture another king (a result of the rule, not the rule itself), it is possible for kings to occupy adjacent squares.

This is a good one!