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Re: 1D Chess

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Post by manwe150 »

BoiledCabbage wrote: post #151
smrq wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the intended turn order is: 1: P1 selects 2: P2 selects 3: P1 reveals 4: P1 selects 5: P2 reveals 6: GOTO 2 I.e. each player always selects immediately before their opponent reveals.

Yeah, but what stops P1 from DDos'ing and picking checkmate each time? If P2 picks check the first time, then they're done. At any point after if they pick checkmate, since P1 has checkmate selected they will reveal it and P2 will lose. It seems like a poorly thought through game...

Because P1 lost on their first turn if P2 wasn’t about to pick checkmate

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by vscode-rest »

moffkalast wrote: post #26
asibahi wrote: post #5

This is really nice. Incidentally, there is an actual 1D game that is one of the most popular games on the planet: Backgammon.

Backgammon, the game everyone's seen and at the same time nobody knows how to play :P

You’d be surprised – take a Backgammon board to a table in at a cafe in a popular area and chances are someone will sit down to play with you. Can be a good way of meeting people in a new area. (or new people in an old area!)

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by olelele »

anyfoo wrote: post #63
hackyhacky wrote: post #42

If you enjoyed this, you might like Mind Chess, which can be played without a board and pieces [1]: Consider Mind Chess. Two players face each other. One says "Check." The other says "Check." The first says "Check." This continues until one of them says, instead, "Checkmate." That player wins -- superficially. In fact, the challenge is to put off checkmate for as long as possible, while still winning. This may be bet…

Which reminds me that I just lost the game. I also lost the game not too long ago, but before that, I think I didn't actually lose it for a decade of more? And losing it wasn't even because it was mentioned anywhere, I genuinely just thought of it by myself, after forgetting about it for so long. So my sincerest apologies if my comment just made any readers lose their long streak in the game.

Wow maybe 10+years running here since i lost last..

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by neverkn0wsb357 »

This might have a bug. I have the following configuration.

K - King H - Knight R - Rook E - Enemy King X - Empty

K X X X R K E X

But it indicates it’s a draw by stalemate.

There is only 1 legal move for black here. Which is to move back to X. If it takes my Knight rook gets it.

He moves back, I move my Knight out of the way. Checkmate.

Edit: oh wait nvm there’s no legal move for black.

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by ponkpanda »

anyfoo wrote: post #63
hackyhacky wrote: post #42

If you enjoyed this, you might like Mind Chess, which can be played without a board and pieces [1]: Consider Mind Chess. Two players face each other. One says "Check." The other says "Check." The first says "Check." This continues until one of them says, instead, "Checkmate." That player wins -- superficially. In fact, the challenge is to put off checkmate for as long as possible, while still winning. This may be bet…

Which reminds me that I just lost the game. I also lost the game not too long ago, but before that, I think I didn't actually lose it for a decade of more? And losing it wasn't even because it was mentioned anywhere, I genuinely just thought of it by myself, after forgetting about it for so long. So my sincerest apologies if my comment just made any readers lose their long streak in the game.

Damn!

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by MegaSec »

neverkn0wsb357 wrote: post #166

This might have a bug. I have the following configuration. K - King H - Knight R - Rook E - Enemy King X - Empty K X X X R K E X But it indicates it’s a draw by stalemate. There is only 1 legal move for black here. Which is to move back to X. If it takes my Knight rook gets it. He moves back, I move my Knight out of the way. Checkmate. Edit: oh wait nvm there’s no legal move for black.

I don’t think it is a bug, the enemy king can’t move back to X because the knight is attacking that space. Traditionally you can’t move into check in chess.

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by splonk »

It's interesting that the page actually uses minimax to determine black's play. I kind of assumed it would be a simple lookup table given the small state space of the game. I suppose it makes it easier to add more variants.
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