Series 2 - Episode 6
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Combat chess is very tense stuff, but if you think about it it's more or less inevitable that the dungeoneer will succeed. It's impossible for a player to make checkmate with only a king and a bishop, so how can a player with only a bishop capture a piece that has the knight's move?
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If you happen to touch the bishop, you die straight away - Life Force Death. I suppose the bishop could either land on a square that the dungeoneer was already on, or the dungeoneer could mess up and walk into the bishop while making their move.
Has any team died while playing Combat Chess?
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I was 8 or 9 when this first aired and even though I knew John Woodnutt was Merlin as well as Mogdred, he terrified me to death! The playpen speech still scared me today!
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I'm doing some lists for how people died in some of my favorite show's so I thought I'd better put Kightmare in there too.
But I just need something cleared up about Tony's death.
Did Mogdred actualy kill him? or did Tony's life force (That was very low) simply run out infront of him?
(It's the bit were Mogdred says "Play forvever" BTW)
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If I remember correctly Mogdred didn't tend to mock that much, just threw the odd spanner in the works. Fear, on the other hand, delighted in mocking and gloating.
Since I don't pick up Challenge I'm going from a slightly hazy memory here.
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It's technically an automatic lock-in, though instead of just them entering an empty room and Treguard saying "Oh dear, you've entered the wrong room" Mogdred appears and finishes them off. I'd call it a Mogdred death.
Automatic lock-in?
That should have been a perfect shot for Richard O'Brien, not Mogdred...
(PEDANTIC: Yes, I do realise this was series 2, and the Crystal Maze didn't start until after series 3. But you can see what I mean.)
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He was bald, but that's about as far as the similarity goes. I couldn't see him charging round the Crystal Maze the way Richard O'Brien did (at nearly 50) - in fact, I'll wager that a Skeletron had more life in it than Grimaldine did.
And as for playing the harmonica or introducing the dungeoneer to Mumsie...
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just re-watched teh episode. he says....."welcome to one of mogdred little play pens...play a while...play forever...mwahahahaha etc" and every door had portculiss(sorry spelling) on. so being trapped in a room with no food or exit, id still say it wasnt a mogdred death!
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