The Chess Game

The first time Loche plays chess against the computer he is checkmated by a move which can't be checkmate. Though you can't see the whole board, the place where the enemy queen moves to does not threaten Locke's king, and it moves from a position that cannot reveal any other enemy pieces to threaten Locke's king. therefore it isn't checkmate.

The second time when Locke wins, the whole board is visible, and the "checkmate" Locke receives is far from checkmate. There are two moves the computer can do to escape from check.

Also note that different cuts show different chessboards, and that Locke's first move in the second game is extremely illogical, followed by an extremely illogical move by the computer.

In short whoever wrote that portion had next to ZERO knowledge of how to play chess.

I believe there may be more to what you saw.

06:37 AM

Im betting the "Chess game" was no such thing; it was an Enigma-type message coding machine...

Mikael was telling the truth about the game's cheating?

Obviously it was not a standard chess game program. Possibly what the cheating computer reference was about. I didn't pay much attention the the computer screen game details, because I knew that Locke would be allowed to win at some point and that it was a setup.

Can't play chess,so it was Russian to me

Total set up. Locke was no doubt a gamesman, Risk and Backgammon was already in his arsenal, but to beat a game designed by three cheating russian grand masters, if Mikail wasn't lying then, well, that would be hard. Mikail wanted him to play so he could be distracted, someone else let him win, that's why we saw such horrible gameplay.

Love it Cablerunner!!! That fits really well

The move that the machine made to give Locke a checkmate was so stupid, it HAD to have been done by someone looking on. Someone wanted Locke to get to Candles message.

I have no Klugh as to who or why.

haha, good one. And Wed, I just said the opposite in another thread. Damn, it's getting tough keeping up with my own thoughts

Did anybody notice in the video that popped up after Locke beat the chess game, there was a bookshelf of manuals behind him? Then when Sayid goes into the secret chamber where klugh is, he finds a very similar looking bookshelf? I wonder if the place where klugh was hiding WAS the actual flame hatch, and the house on top was something built later. I remember Sayid looking at 2 of the manuals, one was protocol for a food drop and the other was a Dharma training manual, with all of this info I could see how the "hostiles" could easily take over this station/hatch and act like they were still Dharma.