63...Mc2#
Waterloo (exhibition game): HorusTheThird - vickalan
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After 62...Me2+ I believe you missed your one escape, which would have left the game even, or maybe even White better as far as I can tell (hard to calculate).
You've played amazingly well, so I'm sure you finding your missed escape is not hard. If you'd like to play the "alternate ending", let me know. I'll be ok to call it "game 2" so that if you win, we're even (1-1).
Whether you want to play the alternate ending or not, I'm super-impressed with your play. There is not a point where I detected any innacurate play anywhere in this game (but I'm not a computer). Good game!
It's a dramatic party of blunders but very impressive and instructive for all us.
My duty to tell you that this version of Waterloo is antiquated and unpromising.
Try new version in a championship if not now then later.
Waterloo composition "Iron Knight"
62. Qb9+ Kg8
63. Qi9+ Kf7
64. Gxd5+ Ke7
65. Qf9#
IvanKosintsev wrote:
...My duty to tell you that this version of Waterloo is antiquated and unpromising.
Try new version in a championship if not now then later.
Why do you consider it antiquated and unpromising?
hitthepin wrote:
Can I play this edition of Waterloo with someone?
Do you understand all the rules and piece moves?
I believe White was a little careless with 63.Ka3
where Black followed 63...Mc2#
White may have been winning prior to that (but not sure).
Do you want to play from move 63 for an "alternate ending"
It would be your move as White from post #62, if you'd like to try.
I'm good. Good game, though! Thanks!
Mar 13, 2018
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#172
My assumed default values for the pieces:
Pawn: 1
Knight: 3
Spy: 3
Bishop: 3.5
Rook: 5.5
Cardinal: 6.5
Guard: 7
Marshall: 8.5
Advisor: 9.5
Queen: 12.5
Pawn: 1
Knight: 3
Spy: 3
Bishop: 3.5
Rook: 5.5
Cardinal: 6.5
Guard: 7
Marshall: 8.5
Advisor: 9.5
Queen: 12.5
Spy's 'bout four
Mar 13, 2018
0
#174
I have one question about the rules though. It is stated that “thirty moves without a pawn move or promotion bring defeat”. Who loses? Also,’what do we do if we get into a KR v KR situation or something like that?
You have two questions. 
1. the person who makes the thirtieth move.
2. play it out.
HorusTheThird wrote:
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1. the person who makes the thirtieth move.
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About hitthepin's first question, honestly this is one rule that confuses me, and I was becoming concerned it could come into effect in this game.
Let's say White makes a capture on move 50.
Now we're at move 80 (30 moves later with no capture or promotion). If white does not make a capture or promotion, then does White lose? Or can White play, then leaving this burden to Black?
Of everything about Waterloo, I feel that this is possibly one rule which is not ideal. It seems to add a random affect to the game: if a game has no progress it is not a draw. One side gets the win from a position that humans probably cannot calculate, although the game ending was "draw-like".
Let me know what you guys think, or maybe Ivan can clear it up.
hitthepin: I'm glad you'll play. But let's wait till this rule is cleared up (or at least I understand it) until we start. I didn't see either side with a big advantage, so this rule can have an effect.
It seems like this same rule is used in version 6 of the game. So I asked the question (at waterloo).
Ka3