Coincidence?

Hey, I just realized something.

Chess has "hedgehog" variations of various openings.

Sonic is a hedgehog.

Coincidence?

Illuminati!

there is also the Pterodactyl Defense
Aerodactyl is a pokemon based on Pterodactyls
Coincidence? 

GASP!

Not to mention all the openings named after characters from Hetalia...

DOUBLE GASP!!

Chess has 64 squares, some black and some white.  There are 88 keys on the piano, some black and some white.  Take 88 and make it 8x8, giving us 64.  There was also the Nintendo 64 and the old Commodore 64.

It gets worse...

Cats have 9 lives.  The queen is worth 9 points.  The maximum number of queens one can have in a game is 9.  Is the queen a cat?  The queen is worth 3 minor pieces.  There are 3 parts to the Divine Comedy, which uses 3 line rhymes.  There are also 9 circles of Hell in Dante, which is equal to the queen!

Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies.  Beethoven wrote 32 piano piano sonatas.  There are 32 dark squares, and 32 white squares on the chess board.  His teacher in Bonn, Neefe, was an Illuminati!

NOOO!!! SOMEONE PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY!!

I was just about to suggest dat piano thing.

The white pieces look like white chocolate and the dark ones look like licorice. But I've also seen pieces in the color of chocolate and butterscotch pudding.

Isn't an octave 8? Aren't there 32 pieces? Don't humans have 32 teeth? Aren't teeth used for eating white chocolate? Aren't teeth unnecessary for eating butterscotch pudding? Doesn't the knight look like the Horsehead Nebula or a Pepperidge Farm cookie? Doesn't Pepperidge Farm make Goldfish crackers? Don't cats like fish? Aren't crackers and cookies rotting to the teeth?

I furgot to mention the Hetalia openings. Like Austrian Attack and French Defense to name a few. Doesn't Austria play a PIANO? Doesn't France like to cook foodstuffs like white chocolate and pudding?

OMG, the front two are the queen and king, then we have the bishops, so on until we find the pawns at the sides!

The octave being 8 could be seen as either way.  It's 12 semitones, but 8 scale degrees in a major/minor system.  When we get into pentatonic scales, whole tone scales, or octatonic, it isn't 8.  Better to think of them as double or half of the frequency of the other note.  You know, middle C (C4) is twice the frequency of c3 but half of c5.

I don't get that one.

Piano knows his Pianology ¦3

You don't get the part about th teeth or the octave/scales?

Kitty, it's music theory, not pianology.  It applies to all instruments.

So I guess pianos and other such instruments are good at that subject. What subject are us furry animals good at?

Catching mice and sunbathing.

Oh, the meaning of octave is litteraly the "8th,"  which comes from the old systems when scales were 7 notes.  One could say there is an octave of pawns.

Mice are like pawns rrright?

Female cats are called queens. What does that make male cats, bishops?

I had a pet mouse when I was a three months old baby kitten and I let it run away..

64 squares on a chess board.

Wikipedia:

In mathematics

Sixty-four is the square of 8, the cube of 4, and the sixth power of 2. It is the smallest number with exactly seven divisors. It is the lowest positive power of two that is adjacent to neither a Mersenne prime nor a Fermat prime. 64 is the sum of Euler's totient function for the first fourteen integers. It is also a dodecagonal number and a centered triangular number.

Since it is possible to find sequences of 64 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member, 64 is an Erdős–Woods number.

In base 10, no integer added up to its own digits yields 64, hence it is a self number.

64 is a superperfect number - a number such that σ(σ(n))=2n.

64 is the index of Graham's number in the rapidly growing sequence 3,27,7625597484987,....

8 squares per side.

In mathematics

8 is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, and 4. It is twice 4 or four times 2. Eight is a power of two, being  (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , p being an integer greater than 1. It has an aliquot sum of 7 in the 4 member aliquot sequence (8,7,1,0) being the first member of 7-aliquot tree. It is symbolized by the Arabic numeral (figure)

All powers of 2 ;(), have an aliquot sum of one less than themselves.

A number is divisible by 8 if its last 3 digits are also divisible by 8.

Eight is the first number to be the aliquot sum of two numbers other than itself; the discrete biprime 10, and the square number 49.

8 is the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents 3 bits. In modern computers, abyte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet.

The number 8 is a Fibonacci number, being 3 plus 5. The next Fibonacci number is 13. 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube.^[1]

8 is the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal.

8 and 9 form a Ruth–Aaron pair under the second definition in which repeated prime factors are counted as often as they occur.

A polygon with eight sides is an octagon. Figurate numbers representing octagons (including eight) are called octagonal numbers. A polyhedron with eight faces is an octahedron. Acuboctahedron has as faces six equal squares and eight equal regular triangles.

A cube has eight vertices.

Sphenic numbers always have exactly eight divisors.

8 is the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra.

The number 8 is involved with a number of interesting mathematical phenomena related to the notion of Bott periodicity. For example if  is the direct limit of the inclusions of real orthogonal groups  then . Clifford algebras also display a periodicity of 8. For example the algebra  is isomorphic to the algebra of 16 by 16 matrices with entries in . We also see a period of 8 in the K-theory of spheres and in the representation theory of the rotation groups, the latter giving rise to the 8 by 8 spinorial chessboard. All of these properties are closely related to the properties of the octonions.

The lowest dimensional even unimodular lattice is the 8-dimensional E₈ lattice. Even positive definite unimodular lattice exist only in dimensions divisible by 8.

A figure 8 is the common name of a geometric shape, often used in the context of sports, such as skating. Figure-eight turns of a rope or cable around a cleat, pin, or bitt are used to belay something.

Coincidence?