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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 19×19 intersections of a grid, but sometimes a faster, simpler version is played on the 9×9 intersections of a grid (which thus has 8×8 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. | |
− | + | In chess, the phrasing "White to move" indicates that it's the White player's turn; "White to play and win" indicates that it's White's turn and the next move (if White plays correctly) will win the game. The caption "White to continue insisting this is a chessboard" is a play on this traditional phrasing. | |
− | + | Two versions of the board were posted by Randall: both had white after P-e3, P-d4, N-f3, N-c3, but the first with an extra bishop at e4 (B@e4), the second after B-d2. | |
− | + | B@e4 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-e3 with e4 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. | |
− | The game transcript is | + | The title text is in the format of a game transcript, starting on the 25th move. |
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+ | It is unclear whether the game shown in the picture and the one predicted in the title text are two separate games: the title text does not necessarily describe the game in the picture (supported by the observation that Black is making proper chess moves). The pictured game flaunts the rules of chess by mixing it with go; the title game takes the humor up a notch by imagining chess grandmasters engaging in petty bickering after a win when one of them keeps playing. | ||
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+ | {{w|Magnus Carlsen}} is a 22 year old Norwegian 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 undisputed World Champion since 2007. Carlsen and Anand are due to face each other {{w|World Chess Championship 2013|in November 2013}} | ||
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+ | For white, the pictured match is initially similar to the [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1453660 16th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) match] between Carlsen and Anand. Since the match was blindfold, perhaps this contributed to the confusion over whether the game was Chess or Go </humour>. | ||
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+ | If the text does refer to a hypothetical Go-Chess game, black is making chess moves, apparently having accepted that it is a game of chess after all:- | ||
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+ | At 25, white's Queen moves to b8 for check and is captured by black's Knight taking it, but after white's Rook checkmates at d8 (denoted by #; presumably the king is trapped on 8 behind pawns), Black (illegally) continues to play with something moving to f6 (this could be interpreted as a Go move), and responds to White's protests with the chess moves Queen to f5 and then Queen takes at g5. | ||
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+ | White eventually takes Black's king (presumably) at e8 with the checkmating Rook, 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 forcing white to concede that the game is not - after all - chess. White protests this 'move' too, and black spills the board. | ||
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+ | A hybrid game of Go-Chess could perhaps be fought in a similar manner to Chess Boxing, but with perhaps more interaction between the Go and Chess games: Go stones surrounding a chess square could remove the chess piece; diagonally-moving chess pieces could 'take' Go stones from the corners in the move from one diagonal square to another, in a manner perhaps reminiscent of drafts/chequers. | ||
==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-e3, P-d4, N-f3, N-c3, B-d2 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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