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

#1

Post by idiotclock » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 10:21 PM UTC

Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?
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#2

Post by lmm » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 10:50 PM UTC

Seems like it always queens pawns; I'd hoped to see some exciting random promotions :/.

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Post by pedrocr » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 10:54 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #2

Seems like it always queens pawns; I'd hoped to see some exciting random promotions :/.

Just saw it promote to bishop :)

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Post by stouset » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 10:56 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #2

Seems like it always queens pawns; I'd hoped to see some exciting random promotions :/.

I just saw a promotion to a knight.

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Post by Elhana » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 10:56 PM UTC

pedrocr wrote: post #3

lmm wrote: post #2

Seems like it always queens pawns; I'd hoped to see some exciting random promotions :/.

Just saw it promote to bishop :)

Two bishops here. It gets boring when there is a few pieces left.. there is hardly any chance random will actually win - it will keep moving around forever.

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Post by zetazzed » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 11:00 PM UTC

I found myself getting mad at Math.random() pretty quickly. "Argh, you just got to promote two pawns, and you made them both black bishops!?!? I oughta fire you and hire an LFSR!"

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Post by acadien » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 11:04 PM UTC

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 information could be mined from a huge set of random-random games. Maybe the relative power of each piece in terms of the number of pieces it captures on average? Also with some heuristic tweeks you could probably start exploring the power of various openings. Of course then its no longer random-random.

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Post by caractacus » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 11:04 PM UTC

White down to King, Black with Bishop, King, Knight, pawn promoted to Queen... but oh, the mistakes. White swept up piece after piece and could Black still take it with a King-Knight combination? No. No he couldn't. Stalemate.

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Post by pcthrowaway » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 11:11 PM UTC

First game I watched and I was expecting stalemate, but down to just a pawn (f2) and a king (b3), white checkmated the opposing king (at b1) by promoting the pawn to a queen

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Post by Svenstaro » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 11:16 PM UTC

White caged its own king in a8 by putting pawns in a7 and a6 while black king just chilled about in c8. Checkmate!