(yes, 'twas inspired by him)
You are playing white in a chess game.
Black - determined to lose - has announced that he will copy every one of your moves and if you put him in check he will resign. How quickly can you defeat his strategy?
Originally posted by iamatiger (yes, 'twas inspired by him)
You are playing white in a chess game.
Black - determined to lose - has announced that he will copy every one of your moves and if you put him in check he will resign. How quickly can you defeat his strategy?
you play; e4, d4; d4xe5; qd5 (or d6)
he can't copy your queen move: 'strategy' defeated.
Alternatively never play him at all: the only real option.
Originally posted by royalchicken I looked at that line originally, but when he can't copy it, he resigns. At least that's what he did in practice. So how do you lose nontrivially?
well in that case he broke his own 'rules': in which case there's even less point in his existance. fingers crossed russ deletes his account: (sets max number games to zero).
In order for the strategy to be defeated, you must take a mirror image piece. You can prove a knight can't threaten a knight because they have to be opposite each other. So you need to move a pawn out first. Then position a piece where it can take the mirror image piece, and finally actually take it. That takes 3 moves. You can't put a piece en prise after just moving a pawn as they block all the pieces except the knights.
Here is a PGN line to beat him. I checked copy cat's games and he follows your every move.. so you can't check him until it is check mate.
THere may be a faster way? I'll let someone else find it. I don't think there is any way to force copy cat to win... but who knows??? At least he won't resign. Here is my line.
[Event "I will mate copycat"]
[Site "Posers and Puzzles"]
[Date "2003.08.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "You"]
[Black "copy cat"]
[Result "1-0"]