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Here's a thread already existing for Joyce's chess and philosophy ideas. How is ''two-step bent nightrider'' Joyce mentions an example of an area effect piece, as Joyce describes it? Should Pawns be able to move up to 5 spaces at a time? That is dismissed out of hand by Joyce's genius Daniel Dennett in intro by Joyce to this very thread. What does Joyce mean by ''planar, cubic, quartic, quintic'' in his current comment at Charles Gilman's glossary to 'M&Bxxs'? What is a ''traffic cop piece'' of Joyce? It could be a good one. In some languages overseas they call those deliberate bumps all the way across the road ''lying-down policemen'' loosely translated. What are JJ's ''batteries'' of pieces and how would Dennett regard them? Is it a term from that other field of action games so popular in the 1980s (the days of ''Thriller''), having opposing militias over vast territories seeking victims? ///////////