Twilight: A Very Brief History Of Poker

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In 2010 I wrote a series of essays decoding some ideas about Twilight and included the chess analogies. Here is the chapter about it. The world famous chess was conceived as a war game for two players, played on a board of 8x8 squares, alternating the colors, white and black, which are the 64 possible positions for game development. At the beginning of the game, each player has sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks, and eight pawns. The objective is to overthrow the opponent's king, reaching the square where it lives, with some of the pieces of the opponent, to check, making the other player unable to move or eliminate the attacking piece in order to escape the attack, checkmate. The rules are well-known, …show more content…

Except Rosalie, but this attitude did not last long and then she is responsible for advising Bella, to not be hard on him after the kidnapping in Eclipse. He made the Cullens move from Forks, when he decided it was for the best and then, made them come back. When he wanted to renew the pact with the wolves, he did the same with Jacob, on behalf of all of them. I think Edward is really the leader of the family and Carlisle, is more the counselor (The Dumbledore so to speak). Of all the powerful family vampires, Edward is who decides almost everything in history. His abilities and strong personality, and his hero complex, really had made the eldest son of the Cullen to be the head in all but …show more content…

Each of them has a bishop, a horse and a rook. The Knight represents the cavalry, the legions that any king or queen needs to exercise their right and protect their interests. If we view history, the person who is supporting Edward behind all her plans and ideas, his right hand and who when he cannot be present, is in charge of following his commands and especially to take care of Bella is of course Alice. Alice is Edward's knight Bella's knight is, surprisingly, Rosalie. Bella turned her into her knight, when she recruited the help, of her reluctant sister-in-law, during the events of Breaking Dawn. She needed her at her side to protect her unborn baby. I think that since the New Moon incident Rosalie recognized that Bella would be her queen, and she tried to approach her and try, to mend their situation. The mixture of guilt for almost get his brother killed, convinced her to explain to Bella her sad story in Eclipse, showing that the alliance between the two of them, was starting to form a long time before it was needed. Bella knew that Alice will support Edward's choices, given that she was his knight. Therefore, she couldn't count with her help, so she took her old antagonist, to defend her. Completing the board of Cullen