Friday, 26 April 2024
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Created April 25, 2010. Each player enters the game with a MuseBlog rating of 160. If the game is a draw, the ratings won’t change. Otherwise, the winner will end up with 210, the loser with 110.
Date: April 25, 2010
Categories: Chess, Games completed
This looks like it will get very complicated. 
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Piggy’s sixth move makes no sense to me. It should become apparent soon enough.
I must not play chess enough…
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I think I see the motive behind it.
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I don’t *would have taken the rook*
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Fine. I’ll waltz right into the trap, but not without defensive planning.
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…I hope that wasn’t the defensive planning you spoke of.
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Y’see, I thought it would be a trap.
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I think you misunderstood. On your move, the piece was protected by the pawn, but on piggy’s sixth move(aside from perhaps trapping you inside a cage of his pieces) you could have waltzed in and taken his rook with your bishop. Nothing was covering it.
Do you see my confusion with his play?
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Gah, dangit! Stupid iPod. That is NOT where I tapped. *grumbles*
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Should I proceed?
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I don’t know what else you would do.
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Well the GAPAs could probably take your move back…
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We can do that, but we don’t want to make a habit of it. Suppose JW had said he meant to move his queen to d7? Still, retrozap completed.
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Thank you, Robert. I’ll try to make my taps more precise from now on. *apology choklit*
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No, no, Piggy! The king is in the other direction.
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I must admit I don’t see how a checkmate could have been more possible had I moved the queen the opposite direction. 
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I’ll post comments for both of you padawans after the game is over.
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I don’t quite see how I can win this one. I might get lucky and last a bit longer.
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I have the end in sight now, provided you don’t do anything bizarre, Jakob.
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Indeed. I will reach for that bizarre move.
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Does the automatic draw occur after 40 turns or 40 turns of the King surviving alone?
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The 50-move rule says a player may claim a draw if 50 moves have passed without a capture or a pawn move.
Another kind of draw, stalemate, occurs when a player has no legal moves but is not in check. That’s most likely to happen to a lone king without any other pieces.
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Nrrrrg, cake it, stupid inaccurate iPod. *swears*
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Cake.
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Now it’s just a matter of getting you into a corner while avoiding stalemate. Maybe to level up a few pawns into queens?
(Yes, I did use the term “level up”.)
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GRAH. I hate this iPod.
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iPod, if you had LISTENED to me, that would’ve been CHECKMATE, but noooooo, you’re too COOL for that.
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Whee!
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The two of you are in cahoots, aren’t you?! *slaps both with a mackerel*
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Nay, nay, good sir! I was merely taking a lucky opportunity to prolong the game length!
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No matter what happens, you can only reach a draw. This has become a rather boring game.
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Rephrased: You can only hope for a draw, at best.
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I’m finding it quite suspenseful.
Still, it would have ended 20 moves ago if White had played 30. Rf1 (or 31. Rf1, or 32. Rf1, or 33. Rf1, or 34. Rg1 check). That’s why I teased you about running away to gobble up those pawns.
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All right, this game’s just about over. Phew. That was long.
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Yay!
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Congrats.
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Thanks. That was a horrendously long game.
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Checkmate on the 59th move. New MuseBlog ratings: Piggy, 210; Jakob Wonkychair, 110.
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Can I haz a new game please?
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JW: Check the ladder for an opponent. cromwell isn’t playing anyone else right now.
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