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| title = Puzzle | | title = Puzzle | ||
| image = puzzle.png | | image = puzzle.png | ||
− | | titletext = Prediction for Carlsen v. Anand: ...25. Qb8+ Nxb8 26. Rd8# f6 27. "...dude." Qf5 28. "The game is over, dude." Qxg5 29. Rxe8 0-1 30. "Dude, your move can't be '0-1'. Don't write that down." [Black flips board] | + | | titletext = Prediction for Carlsen v. Anand: ... 25. Qb8+ Nxb8 26. Rd8# f6 27. "... dude." Qf5 28. "The game is over, dude." Qxg5 29. Rxe8 0-1 30. "Dude, your move can't be '0-1'. Don't write that down." [Black flips board] |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | The game of {{w|Go (game)|go}} (also called Weiqi, Baduk or Igo) is usually played on the 19×19 intersections of a grid, but sometimes a faster, simpler version is played on the 9×9 intersections of a grid (which thus has 8×8 squares, as a chessboard, though they are not colored in an alternating pattern - {{w|White and Black in chess|introduced to chess in the 13th century}}). In the comic, white has chess figures and plays against black, which uses go stones. | |
− | + | In chess, the phrasing "White to move" indicates that it's the White player's turn; "White to play and win" indicates that it's White's turn and the next move (if White plays correctly) will win the game. The caption "White to continue insisting this is a chessboard" is a play on this traditional phrasing. | |
− | + | Two versions of the board were posted by Randall: both had white after P-e3, P-d4, N-f3, N-c3, but the first with an extra bishop at e4 (B@e4), the second after B-d2. | |
− | + | B@e4 in the first version of the board was perhaps intended to represent confusion in White's mind whether he was playing Go (placing a piece) or Chess (it's a chess piece) - as a 'placement' this move could have been first, and could explain P-e3 with e4 already being blocked. | |
− | The game transcript in the title text refers to the ending of the famous | + | It it unclear whether black has gone first (as is traditional in Go) with five Go stones (none in the 3-3 handicap positions marked on a 9x9 Go board) vs five chess moves. White moves first has been traditional in Chess for about a century. |
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+ | The title text is in the format of a game transcript, starting on the 25th move. | ||
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+ | {{w|Magnus Carlsen}} is a 22 year old Norwegian chess grandmaster, who had the highest peak rating and was the third youngest grandmaster in history. He was the world's 2009 blitz champion. {{w|Viswanathan Anand}} is a 43 year old Indian grandmaster has been undisputed World Champion since 2007. Carlsen and Anand are due to face each other {{w|World Chess Championship 2013|in November 2013}} | ||
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+ | For white, the pictured match is initially similar to the [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1453660 16th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) match] between Carlsen and Anand. Since the match was blindfold, perhaps this contributed to the confusion over whether the game was Chess or Go </humour>. | ||
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+ | The title text refers to the ending of the famous "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphy_versus_the_Duke_of_Brunswick_and_Count_Isouard Opera Game] between Paul Morphy and the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard. That game ends with 16. Qb8+ Nxb8 17. Rd8#. In the title text, Black continues to make moves as if he has not been checkmated, over White's protests, and eventually writes "0-1" (the notation symbolizing a Black victory). | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[A game board with | + | :[A game board with 8x8 white squares and black borders, like a goboard or an all white chessboard, there are white chess pieces in starting position on the bottom after P-e3, P-d4, N-f3, N-c3, B-d2 and five black Go pieces on the edges in the center of the board on d4 d5 c6 g4 g6.] |
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:White to continue insisting this is a chessboard | :White to continue insisting this is a chessboard | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Chess]] | [[Category:Chess]] | ||
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