Elliott C. Evans writes: >Yes, that's ambiguous; yes, you need to check in the book. Yep! :) >PwP, p. 89: > > An attacking piece is extraneous if subtracting its value from the > > total value of the attacking pieces leaves a number that still exceeds > > the value of the defensive piece. That works. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme@(io.com, labcats.org)) |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^-- "Did you know, if you increment enough, you /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\ get an extra digit?" "I knew," weeps Six. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\ "We knew. But we had forgotten." '---''(_/--' (_/-'