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The Icon Bar: The Playpen: Four-move checkmate
 
  Four-move checkmate
  VincceH (20:53 14/8/2008)
  ilcook (21:08 14/8/2008)
    tribbles (22:33 14/8/2008)
    VincceH (23:14 14/8/2008)
      VincceH (17:12 15/8/2008)
        adrianl (22:23 15/8/2008)
          Loris (22:47 15/8/2008)
            ksattic (23:21 15/8/2008)
            VincceH (15:54 16/8/2008)
              Loris (13:04 18/8/2008)
          VincceH (15:55 16/8/2008)
 
VinceH Message #108011, posted by VincceH at 20:53, 14/8/2008
VincceH
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I can't believe I've just beaten someone that way.

In all my years of playing chess (although there's been a big 10-15 year gap - I've only just started playing again) I've never managed to use the four-move approach.

Until tonight.
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Ian Cook Message #108012, posted by ilcook at 21:08, 14/8/2008, in reply to message #108011
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I can't believe I've just beaten someone that way.

In all my years of playing chess (although there's been a big 10-15 year gap - I've only just started playing again) I've never managed to use the four-move approach.

Until tonight.
I bet that was more luck than anything smile
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Jason Tribbeck Message #108013, posted by tribbles at 22:33, 14/8/2008, in reply to message #108012
tribbles
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I've done it a couple of times.

Trick is to do it to the same person wink
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VinceH Message #108014, posted by VincceH at 23:14, 14/8/2008, in reply to message #108012
VincceH
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It was some random blokey on facebook.

I never was a particularly good chess player - and with such a long gap, I'm more than a little rusty (hell, my 7 year old nephew, who has only just learnt to play beat me last week!). So, supposedly, if the rating system for the chess app I use isn't being abused*, he should have been much better than me, and really shouldn't have lost in four moves.

But he did, so there you go.

* How to get a good rating: Know your real level and ability in terms of the rating system, and always play against players whose rating is much lower than that.
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VinceH Message #108015, posted by VincceH at 17:12, 15/8/2008, in reply to message #108014
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Unbelievable. They're like buses - none happen for many years, then you get two in two days! smile
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Adrian Lees Message #108018, posted by adrianl at 22:23, 15/8/2008, in reply to message #108015
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Okay, now you have to play as black and win in two moves.
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Tony Haines Message #108019, posted by Loris at 22:47, 15/8/2008, in reply to message #108018
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I was thinking about chess. Theoretically, it must be that one side can always win or force a draw, if it plays without making mistakes.

Which side is it that traditionally starts? I'm sure I've heard both... as in "Black starts", but also "White starts" from different people. Let us say that the rule is that White starts.

I thought it would be fun to write up a joke paper opaquely describing a method of playing such a game, and saying that Black (the side which plays second) can always win or force a draw.
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Simon Wilson Message #108020, posted by ksattic at 23:21, 15/8/2008, in reply to message #108019
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I thought white always started.

Saying that, I am terrible at chess.
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VinceH Message #108025, posted by VincceH at 15:54, 16/8/2008, in reply to message #108019
VincceH
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Yes, white always starts - and, yes, it's possible to force a draw (stalemate).
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VinceH Message #108026, posted by VincceH at 15:55, 16/8/2008, in reply to message #108018
VincceH
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Okay, now you have to play as black and win in two moves.
Am I allowed to upgrade the pieces so that they can carry explosives into the game? If so, pawn forward, bishop all the way across, and BOOM!.

Edit: "I'm I allowed" ??? "AM I ALLOWED!" DOH!

[Edited by VincceH at 22:13, 16/8/2008]
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Tony Haines Message #108058, posted by Loris at 13:04, 18/8/2008, in reply to message #108025
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Yes, white always starts - and, yes, it's possible to force a draw (stalemate).
Hmm. Are you saying that there is a known movement algorithm which guarantees that you won't lose, from the start? I didn't know that. (In fact, I think you're not, and you've missed my point.) Does it work for one side only, or both?
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