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Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

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Re: Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

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Post by afro88 »

acadien wrote: post #7

Because check mate is a very small subset of possible moves at the end game, I'm guessing the vast majority of games will end(?) with 2 kings moving around randomly for all of time. This assumes most games will make it past the hump of mid game where its possible the king's motion will be limited and a checkmate can erroneously happen, I suspect this is a rare case as well. On a side note I wonder what kind of useful…

If it's impossible to checkmate then it's a stalemate. So if one side has one king and the other side one king (or even one king and a pawn, bishop, knight or rook) then it's a stalemate and the game ends.

edit: forgot you can checkmate with just a king and a queen

Re: Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

#12

Post by TillE »

acadien wrote: post #7

Because check mate is a very small subset of possible moves at the end game, I'm guessing the vast majority of games will end(?) with 2 kings moving around randomly for all of time. This assumes most games will make it past the hump of mid game where its possible the king's motion will be limited and a checkmate can erroneously happen, I suspect this is a rare case as well. On a side note I wonder what kind of useful…

I saw one game quickly become a lone white king against six black pieces. The king eventually captured three of them, and then the game gave up after some number of fruitless moves.

Even with that advantage, black couldn't randomly stumble across checkmate.

Re: Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

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Post by Carrok »

acadien wrote: post #7

Because check mate is a very small subset of possible moves at the end game, I'm guessing the vast majority of games will end(?) with 2 kings moving around randomly for all of time. This assumes most games will make it past the hump of mid game where its possible the king's motion will be limited and a checkmate can erroneously happen, I suspect this is a rare case as well. On a side note I wonder what kind of useful…

I just got a checkmate first go, rather quickly actually.

Re: Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

#16

Post by cozzyd »

afro88 wrote: post #11
acadien wrote: post #7

Because check mate is a very small subset of possible moves at the end game, I'm guessing the vast majority of games will end(?) with 2 kings moving around randomly for all of time. This assumes most games will make it past the hump of mid game where its possible the king's motion will be limited and a checkmate can erroneously happen, I suspect this is a rare case as well. On a side note I wonder what kind of useful…

If it's impossible to checkmate then it's a stalemate. So if one side has one king and the other side one king (or even one king and a pawn, bishop, knight or rook) then it's a stalemate and the game ends. edit: forgot you can checkmate with just a king and a queen

Pawn wouldn't be stalemate because it can be promoted to a queen.

I think it's also possible to checkmate with a rook + king (if you corner the king and have your king cover the escape route from check).

Re: Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

#17

Post by mhomde »

acadien wrote: post #7

Because check mate is a very small subset of possible moves at the end game, I'm guessing the vast majority of games will end(?) with 2 kings moving around randomly for all of time. This assumes most games will make it past the hump of mid game where its possible the king's motion will be limited and a checkmate can erroneously happen, I suspect this is a rare case as well. On a side note I wonder what kind of useful…

if anyone doesn't capture anything or move a pawn in 50 moves its an draw (better train on that bishop & knight endgame :)... if anyone claims it, so uh, not sure how that counts :) However if an checkmate is impossible with the remaining pieces it's automatic

edit: missing pawn from sentence

Re: Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?

#19

Post by emmelaich »

Very dramatic! One plucky white pawn made it all to end before getting slaughtered.

The two queens got very friendly before the white king killed the black queen in a fit of jealousy.

Meanwhile one black knight just stood off in the corner watching. Waiting.

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