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| title = Puzzle | | title = Puzzle | ||
| image = puzzle.png | | image = puzzle.png | ||
− | | titletext = Prediction for Carlsen v. Anand: ...25. Qb8+ Nxb8 26. Rd8# f6 27. "...dude." Qf5 28. "The game is over, dude." Qxg5 29. Rxe8 0-1 30. "Dude, your move can't be '0-1'. Don't write that down." [Black flips board] | + | | titletext = Prediction for Carlsen v. Anand: ... 25. Qb8+ Nxb8 26. Rd8# f6 27. "... dude." Qf5 28. "The game is over, dude." Qxg5 29. Rxe8 0-1 30. "Dude, your move can't be '0-1'. Don't write that down." [Black flips board] |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | The game of {{w|Go (game)|go}} (also called Weiqi, Baduk or Igo) is usually played on the 19x19 intersections of a grid, but sometimes a faster, simpler version is played on the 9x9 intersections of a grid (which thus has 8x8 squares, as a chessboard, though they are not colored in an alternating pattern - {{w|White and Black in chess|introduced to chess in the 13th century}}). In the comic, white has chess figures and plays against black, which uses go stones. | |
− | + | Two versions of the board were posted by Randall: both had white after P-K3, P-Q4, N-KB3, N-QB3, but the first with an extra bishop at K4 (B@K4), the second after B-Q2. | |
− | + | B@K4 in the first version of the board was perhaps intended to represent confusion in White's mind whether he was playing Go (placing a piece) or Chess (it's a chess piece) - as a 'placement' this move could have been first, and could explain P-K3 with K4 already being blocked. | |
− | + | It it unclear whether black has gone first (as is traditional in Go) with five Go stones (none in the 3-3 handicap positions marked on a 9x9 Go board) vs five chess moves. White moves first has been traditional in Chess for about a century. | |
− | + | With only five moves evident on either side, it is curious that the title text's moves start with the 25th, and curious too that black has apparently conceded that they're playing chess after all: white Queen to b8 check is countered by black Knight taking Queen at b8, but after white Rook checkmates at d8 (presumably the king is trapped on 8), Black plays f6 (which could be interpreted as a Go move), and then responds to White's protests with the chess moves Queen to f5 and Queen takes at g5. White's Rook takes something - presumably Black's king, which it had in check - at e8 and black responds by writing 0-1, which looks similar to the 0-0 notation for 'castling', but is in fact the notation used to declare that black has won the game - perhaps the psychological game of forcing white to play 'Chess' after the checkmate, thereby conceding that the game is not - after all - chess. | |
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+ | {{w|Magnus Carlsen}} is a 22 year old chess grandmaster, who had the highest peak rating and was the third youngest grandmaster in history. He was the world's 2009 blitz champion. {{w|Viswanathan Anand}} is a 43 year old indian grandmaster has been undesputed World Champion since 2007. The text is in the format of a game transcript, but black continues to make moves after white wins the game (checkmate is denoted by #). White eventually responds by taking black's king (which is an illegal move); black's "move" is to declare that he (black) won (which would be correct if his opponent had made 2 previous illegal moves). The rest is clear. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[A game board with | + | :[A game board with 8x8 white squares and black borders, like a goboard or an all white chessboard, there are white chess pieces in starting position on the bottom after P-K3, P-Q4, N-KB3, N-QB3, B-Q2 and five black go pieces on the edges in the center of the board on d4 d5 c6 g4 g6.] |
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:White to continue insisting this is a chessboard | :White to continue insisting this is a chessboard | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Chess]] | [[Category:Chess]] | ||
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