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Pyric victory - technically you won but the resources you have to sacrifice (your imminent loss of freedom while in prison) make it not worth while.
It would certainly get your name in the history books and secure a legacy of infamy. A high ego grandmaster on the decline may decide loss of the remainder of their freedom in life is worth the sacrifice.
"death": losing player called to greater things, one hopes. An inspiringly optimistic spiritual outlook from the PGN standard, so thank you for that. Technically, over the board one could just wait until their deceased opponent flags to claim a win, but in practice, for every occasion I'm aware of in high level tournament play, the remaining player will adjudicate the game honestly according to their evaluation of th…
Please never show these rules to a general AI and ask it to win a chess match...
"death": losing player called to greater things, one hopes. An inspiringly optimistic spiritual outlook from the PGN standard, so thank you for that. Technically, over the board one could just wait until their deceased opponent flags to claim a win, but in practice, for every occasion I'm aware of in high level tournament play, the remaining player will adjudicate the game honestly according to their evaluation of th…
I don't think that's too surprising, I doubt you can play chess at a high level with early stages of Alzheimer's.
Does this imply killing the opponent is a viable strategy in chess?
Murdering your opponent will almost definitely be considered a rule infraction.
Although there might be some edge cases if the murderer was an absolute ruler of the current country. Or maybe if you happened to kill your opponent in self defense somehow.
This occurred in a game of mine. I play(ed) international correspondence chess. The games can go on for years. In one of my games, my opponent sadly passed away. The game was adjuticated to a draw nine months after we had started. I did not have much personal connection with my opponent or interaction beyond our moves and an initial greeting, but it was obviously an extremely sad way for the game to end. Edit: the te…
checkmate (n.) mid-14c., in chess, said of a king when it is in check and cannot escape it, from Old French eschec mat (Modern French échec et mat), which (with Spanish jaque y mate, Italian scacco-matto) is from Arabic shah mat "the king died" (see check (n.1)), which according to Barnhart is a misinterpretation of Persian mat "be astonished" as mata "to die," mat "he is dead." Hence Persian shah mat, if it is the u…
Please never show these rules to a general AI and ask it to win a chess match...