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Weekly Challenge 2: Antidomination

#22

I can copy you - with slight variations in bot choices, but I'm unsure if it can be beat.

0 captures 19 moves 38 ply also

playstrategy.org/xaD1RZE9

Like in theory the absolute minimum would have to be 16 moves, but that would need every move being a capture - which isn't possible (at least the way the bot is playing).

I'm feeling like 17 wouldn't be possible either and 18 seems unlikely.

#23

"Like in theory the absolute minimum would have to be 16 moves, but that would need every move being a capture - which isn't possible (at least the way the bot is playing)."
Have you counted the stalemate?

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#28

@tititogepi That's true, I definitely wasn't thinking of that (stalemate) at the time.

That said if you look through some of the recent games against the bots in this thread, the amount of non-capturing moves you might need to get say just a couple of pawns, like edge pawns into locked positions seems quite high.

The 19 move game already uses 3 non-capturing moves just to get the knights captured and one is the opening pawn move.

It sounds hard anyway, and probably needs some clever ideas to exploit the bots preferences, like move 1&2 @gmchessmap to sac the bishop is quite cool, but it doesn't always work, since there's some randomisation in the order of the bots opening moves (usually edge pawn and rook moves and the odd f and c pawn move).

I look forward though to peoples clever ideas :D

#29

Speaking of, congrats @SirTovo, that was quite lucky that they took the D pawn :) Then it saved a whole move to get the stalemate as mentioned by @tititogepi :)

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