Last week's episode of the West Wing TV show included the "President" playing two games of chess. In one, he recognized his opponent's opening was the Evans Gambit based on the opponent's first move (!); in the other, he immediately recognized the Fibonacci Opening. I haven't played serious chess for years -- some of my friends might say Never -- but I don't recall anything named after Fibonacci. His era antedates Ruy Lopez by about 3 centuries. Does anyone know of a Fibonacci opening? Rich rcs@cs.arizona.edu
At 12:58 PM 12/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Does anyone know of a Fibonacci opening?
I've never heard of it, and it isn't listed in my opening book. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Jud McCranie | | | | Programming Achieved with Structure, Clarity, And Logic | +---------------------------------------------------------+
At 03:01 PM 12/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
At 12:58 PM 12/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Does anyone know of a Fibonacci opening?
I've never heard of it, and it isn't listed in my opening book.
A google search finds this (it is about half way down) http://www.fanboyplanet.com/ontv/km-westwing02-28-02.htm and this, the script: http://communicationsoffice.tripod.com/3-14.txt The lack of any other reference on Google makes me think that it is probably made up by the writers of the show. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Jud McCranie | | | | Programming Achieved with Structure, Clarity, And Logic | +---------------------------------------------------------+
People often confuse Fianchetto with Fibonacci Thane Plambeck 650 321 4884 office 650 323 4928 fax http://www.qxmail.com/home.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Jud McCranie To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] math on tv At 12:58 PM 12/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Does anyone know of a Fibonacci opening?
I've never heard of it, and it isn't listed in my opening book. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Jud McCranie | | | | Programming Achieved with Structure, Clarity, And Logic | +---------------------------------------------------------+
There exists a Fibonacci Chess *variant*. http://www.chessvariants.com/multimove.dir/fibonacci.html On the other hand, in times of Fibonacci they played Chatrang (and not Chess), where you could not move twice with a pawn. In "President" the initial move was d2-d3 (!). The easiest explanation is that Spielberg does not know anything about chess. H. On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Richard Schroeppel wrote:
Last week's episode of the West Wing TV show included the "President" playing two games of chess. In one, he recognized his opponent's opening was the Evans Gambit based on the opponent's first move (!); in the other, he immediately recognized the Fibonacci Opening. I haven't played serious chess for years -- some of my friends might say Never -- but I don't recall anything named after Fibonacci. His era antedates Ruy Lopez by about 3 centuries. Does anyone know of a Fibonacci opening?
Rich rcs@cs.arizona.edu
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