The Chessmaster: Difference between revisions

* Dumbledore in [[J. K. Rowling]]'s ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books is another good Chessmaster, especially in the later books where everything he does (even {{spoiler|[[My Death Is Just the Beginning|his own death]]!}}) seems to be somehow related to some grand plan years in the making. {{spoiler|In fact, "some grand plan years in the making" is a pretty good description of ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Deathly Hallows''}}.

** He was obviously stage-managing things before that. He's been running rings around Tom Riddle since Riddle was just a weird kid in an orphanage, though he could never prove Riddle did any of the misdeeds he did whilst in school because Riddle was clever and covered it up.

*** Riddle was as smart as Dumbledore (who described him as "probably the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen.") He just let his arrogance and impatience get in the way of his genius. He didn't seem to fully grasp that if he was just as smart as Dumbledore, the reverse by definition was also true, or that Dumbledore's apparently reactionary policy might be masking a plan longer than Riddle's year-by-year plots. However, Riddle DID take over the ministry in a silent coup that slowly took place during both the 6th and 7th books. We do not know of Riddle's actions during the first war, however, we DO know that when the time was right, he would give the order for Lucius Malfoy to slip the Horcrux Diary into Hogwarts, and basically bring Hogwarts down from the inside. This is Chessmaster worthy thinking on Riddle's part, as he was patiently waiting for the right time to strike, and the plan would have succeeded because there would be no parseltongue-speaking Harry to hear the snake in the walls. This is of course disregarding the prophecy.

* Makina Seval of ''[[The Assassins of Tamurin]]'', whose [[Xanatos Roulette]] has been years in the making, spanning across an empire but never hitting a snag, and using players in the most obscure and unpredictable roles, who know ''absolutely nothing'' about what they're being used for.