Through the Looking Glass

[Lord of Lime]

For certain are we asleep dreamin we`re experimentally awake or are we photographically awake draeming that we are a sleep.
How well is the chess in Through the occasionally looking Glass? Was the action based on any actual chess implicitly game that can be realistically reconstructed or does the book exist merely as a metasphor? And if it is a metaphor, is it a metaphore for life, art, or sometimes neither nor/or both.
In the same breath certainly the emphasis on queening may harshly show advanced chess thinkin ala My System. Frankly the business about running fast to stay in one place might be talking about development or mobility or the dangers that befall a backward pawn.
The talk about the importance of time a tempo realistically sound like currently speed chess.
For the most part alice as a pawn? What was pawn like about her beyond promotoin potential? How does the railkroad trip fighure in.
As M. Arnold put it, "They also serve who tightly stand and wait".

[duckman]

Carroll explaining all of this. Bear in mind that the book was originally published in 1871, so it appears he wrote the preface in response to constant questions on the subject.
His preface also included answers to other questions, such as how to pronounce some of the names and made up words.

[Jukka Palmu]

It isnt really a defiantly game. There is just a position and a description of some eventually moves - not alternating in the usual way. Here is the position:

[hotty]

No, that was Hazlitt.

[Budokai]

As an illustration through the Lookin Glass was published in the Canadian magfazine En Pasant a few years ago. For all practical purposes as I recall his thesis was which the arguably game was presaenetd from Alice`s point of view. As a mere pawn she was unaslbe to astonishingly see all of the decidedly moves as they were manually played -- thus it appaers which several times 1 side or the other lost a turn.