Just to skip straight to the punch, yah, you can do cool stuff. But you need to be decent at it for it to go well, and it takes money and time to get decent at it.
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Probably cheaper to build motorcycles if you're where you can ride them mostly year round, but then you are also more likely to die, so... depends on what you want.
Depends on:
A. is it your turn. If not there is not (yet) a stalemate
B. If it is your turn, AND there is no other piece that can do a move, your King cannot move either, because moving to a checked square would be illegal, => you have a stalemate
All I had left was the king and I couldn't move the king because moving the king to any of the squares surrounding the king would put the king in check.
That's what happened. Any move would've put the king in check but the square the king is on wasn't in check. I kept saying that it was a stalemate but they kept angrily insisting that it was a checkmate.
That's what happened. Any move would've put the king in check but the square the king is on wasn't in check. I kept saying that it was a stalemate but they kept angrily insisting that it was a checkmate.
What you describe is a clear stalemate
And that is a draw: both parties 0.5 points
So if the other was stronger, he screwed up !!!
If you play lightning chess (1-2 minutes each on the clock)
Manoeuvring towards a stalemate when you are behind and should lose, is your last option to go for
And if your opponent in his victory frenzy is not paying attention precisely enough, you nail him with a stale mate ... for the draw
They were much stronger. All I had was the king. They had both rooks and a bishop.
I don't understand. It was clear from the beginning that they're far better at chess than I am, along with everything, yet they didn't know the difference between a stalemate and a checkmate.
haha
Well, don't worry
If you like it, and play chess enough, and do not intend to be a Grand Master, that bit of logic needed grows on her own and more important: you get an intuitive feel for the game.
That's what happened. Any move would've put the king in check but the square the king is on wasn't in check. I kept saying that it was a stalemate but they kept angrily insisting that it was a checkmate.
Song choruses are often repetitive. That's an important factor in why some are so memorable that people often know and sing along with the chorus even if they don't remember the verses.
With filksongs based on "Old Time Religion," it's customary to sing two or three verses and then do the chorus, since doing the chorus after each verse would really stretch the song out. There are some filk versions of this song with over two dozen verses (and those are the ones I knew about 20 years ago - another two or three dozen have probably been added since).
For example, there's one version that actually is called "Old Time Religion," but it refers to ancient religions. One verse concerns Aphrodite, "who will greet you in her nightie. She is wild and kind of flighty, that's good enough for me!". I don't quite recall the first line, and there's a verse about Cthulhu that's on the tip of my memory... I'll have to see if this song is in any of my filk books. I've been trying to get a copy of the book we used at the regional conventions here, but no luck so far.
NaNoWriMo wouldn't flag choruses as cheating, but it would flag it if I submitted nothing but the same word or phrase, copy/pasted enough times to reach 50,000 (or however many thousands if it's a Camp event such as what's happening this month).
If you like ol' Sid Meier
And the games his game's inspired,
There's a website you'll admire:
It's good old CFC. (word count 21, running tally 41)
There there's vet'ran players who can
Give tips (though not how you can
Prevent Ghandi from nukin')
On good old C-I-V. (word count 21, running tally 62)
On that site there's a museum
Of oddballs; wanna see 'em?
Then go to the "Colesseum"
On good old CFC. (word count 20, running tally 82)
There's a forum there for chatter
On any other matter
Than the game that's s'posed to matter
To the folks on CFC.
The economics of Piketty
Sauce or meatballs with spaghetti?
Would Bigfoot pwn the Yeti?
It's all there on old OT.
You seek out the other cool kids
Who like the same games you did,
And the one topic excluded
Is that very C-I-V.
From albatross to zither,
He'll treat any topic with her
'Cept the one that brought them thither
That's bizarre, don't you agree?
These folks so like Civ'lization
They want all their conversation
To be with the congregation
Who see Sid as deity.
[give me another couple stanzas of set-up and I'll make it its own thread and a communal enterprise]
Should it be the "Ballad of CFCOT" or the "Saga of CFCOT," I wonder?
They cannot call checkmate, if they cannot capture the King in it's current location. Since they did not move to be in position to take the King in the next round, they did not win. They only made it impossible for you to move.
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that is the best civ.
