Weekly Challenge 78: Ready To Breakthrough
Win a game of Breakthrough vs @PS-Greedy-Two-Move with the largest number of pawns on the 7th rank.
Adjudication Criteria:
1. Largest number of pawns one rank away from winning (inlcudes yours and your opponents pieces)
2. Fewest moves (plies)
3. Earliest Entry
Closing Date: Monday 7th October 1200 UTC+0
This week's challenge was suggested to us by @oruro. If you want to suggest a challenge please message @statmatt or @jheps and it will be considered!
Weekly Challenge 78: Ready To Breakthrough
playstrategy.org/R3azXDPrg4t8
7 pawns.
playstrategy.org/2mGCDNvs
7, 117 ply
playstrategy.org/OE31WkSW
8 pawns, 113 ply
@hyoersh2 nice try, but @FangCheng still is the leader, as 1 pawn of the bot is about to win as well :)
ok.
I'm not quite sure why my entry was so funny =) but hyoersh2's entry really impressed me, so here's a 101 ply entry for 8 pawns to tie the score to if hyoersh2 waited an extra move for the bot to reach the 2nd rank
playstrategy.org/P4zNpIquiRM1
Entries for Weekly Challenge 78 has closed. Thanks to all users who participated.
The winner is @FangCheng who won a game of Breakthrough with a perfect score of 8 pawns one rank away from winning, in 101 plies :
playstrategy.org/P4zNpIqu
Users are still welcome to attempt this challenge and post answers here, but the winner has been fixed. The next challenge can be found here: playstrategy.org/forum/weekly-challenges/weekly-challenge-79-mini-army-victory