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Re: 1D Chess

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Post by djsavvy »

lamasery wrote: post #66
anyfoo wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've lost it a lot lately, for some reason, after what I suppose was my third multi-year victory streak. Like, five or so losses this year.

Same here, oddly enough, and every time besides this one was without anyone else mentioning it.

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by contraposit »

hackyhacky wrote: post #82
stavros wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, how is the "put off checkmate" objective scored? Turns before checkmate? Or what? Is it just a joke?

The sibling comment proposed a possible scoring mechanism which might result in enjoyable gameplay, but I think the bigger point (for me, at least) is the Mind Chess represents a reducto ad absurdum of the strategy game genre. It eschews as many rules as possible, leaving you only with the goal of knowing your opponent's mind. So Mind Chess is more of a thought exercise.

The Search for the Longest Infinite Chess Game

https://youtu.be/b-Bb_TyhC1A

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by keeganpoppen »

dwa3592 wrote: post #89

I am ashamed to admit that i could not solve that even though i consider myself a decent player.

just work backward from the moves it allows you to make— it tells you when it’s hopeless, so thus if it lets you move, you’re onto something. took me like 9 or 10 tries easily.

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by Nevermark »

I thought for sure this article was going to be political commentary!

(I would pay a lot for some fat 1500 page, leather-bound tome of wisdom and anecdotes about historical foot guns, by Carl von Clausewitz, titled "1D Chess". And it's inevitable multi-authored, Harvard-published much thicker contemporary-world sequel.)

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by jaeh »

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. multiyear streak ruined. i even managed to forget i was playing.

i just lost the game.

Re: 1D Chess

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Post by zadikian »

tylervigen wrote: post #79
stavros wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, how is the "put off checkmate" objective scored? Turns before checkmate? Or what? Is it just a joke?

I have never played it, but I could imagine a scoring mechanism that would make it interesting, and perhaps is implied by the rules: The score value starts at 1. Every additional "check" multiplies the score value by 2 (so 2, 4, 8, 16...). The first player to say "checkmate" receives the score. Track your summed score between games; the player with the highest overall score at any given time is "winning."

It only works if there are more than two players
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