George Duke wrote on Tue, Feb 10, 2009 02:31 PM EST:
Falcon is first among equals RNBF. Version (7) Falcon Peregrine is the
standard chess piece, one of the four fundamentals, the template actually
from which Rook derives, from which Knight derives, and from which Bishop
derives. Without Falcon, R, N, and B would not exist. PEREGRINE FALCON has the six movement patterns Sraight-Straight-Diagonal, SDD, SDS, DDS, DSS, DSD, in their two
mirrors, making twelve. Knight gets his klutzy fully-functional
striking-degenerate leap from the Falcon beyond, in that Falcon has so
many routes, leaving Knight none whatsoever in plodding placement.
Knight belongs too, for where would theory be without that necessary real world? Rook takes the Falcon one- and two-step partials to extremities. Bishop the Falcon diagonal one- and two-step partials toward all four extremities, the 4 directions. They depend for their very existence on Falcon being there, the implicate orderer. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) clocks at 322 km./hr. the fastest species in the world.
''The purpose of Life is to break down a gradient.'' --Dorion Sagan
