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Weekly Challenge 27: Swift Shogi Stalemate

#1

Weekly Challenge 27: Swift Shogi Stalemate

Win a game of Shogi vs @PS-Greedy-Two-Move by Stalemate in the fewest moves.

Adjudication Criteria:
1. Fewest Moves (plies)
2. Earliest Entry
Closing Date: Monday 2nd October 1200 UTC+0

#3

Is this one going to be massively luck based? Much more than usual?

Greedy two move very clearly knows how to check mate, so you just have to lose all your pieces and pray it doesn’t use the rook or bishop, of which it will have two of each to mate

#4

I think the idea is that you stalemate the bot (and win) therefore you are taking its pieces efficiently not the other way around.

#5

It doesn't actually explain who wins under stalemate does it here?

playstrategy.org/variant/shogi

And it's incredibly hard in a replay to see who won - there's black and white circles beside player names, sente and gote and 0-1 in the game result.

I feel like maybe there should be something a bit more unified there.

So you're saying I win if the bot has no legal moves is it?

#9

Hi @shinuito

You are right, our rules were lacking with clarifying the rules for Stalemate and explaining the sides (Sente/Gote). We've now added some extra information to this page (under 'Pieces', and also 'Stalemate'): playstrategy.org/variant/shogi

As to knowing who is Sente and Gote in a game, I agree its a bit unclear. We'll have a think about how we can improve that. If you are using the western friendly piece-set (shown in the right in all the diagrams on the rules page) then you can marry up Black and White to the pieces based on the colour of the underline for the King.

As for the challenge, you are trying to win the game, via the Stalemate rule.

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