[Retros] Definition of themes in retro-wiki

Joost de Heer joost at sanguis.xs4all.nl
Tue Jun 24 16:08:02 EDT 2008


Nicolas.Dupont at math.univ-lille1.fr wrote:

>> "Half" is nearly as bad - I object to the false arithemeticity.

>

> Humm... A Schnoebelen can be seen as a promoted piece :

>

> . Captured by an officer

> . Moreover at home (and without previous move)

>

> Therefore, calling "Half" a promotee with only the first condition is not

> shocking to my eyes. As a half-group in maths, it has more or less half of

> the properties needed.


And you pick out the one property that's purely incidental for a
Schnoebelen promotion. It's an implied property of a S-promotion, not a
property itself.

Joost



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