What is Insufficient Mating Material on this Server?
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You're sure it's not 8 letters and 5?
Nov 6, 2007
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#22
i may be a very ordinary chess player but i can still count my fingers! yup, it's 7 and 5
Nov 6, 2007
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#23
it may be slightly more difficult for an american solver than for anybody living in a country who's government is based on the british parliamentary system. the terminology is different.
suffer I did. answers I lack!
King_William wrote:
Hotflow, don't get anGRY with me if you are hunGRY.
Here's the solve. Trust me it's a bit of a let-down. ;-(
Since English is not my native language. I've checked for gry in answers.com. And look what I've had:
Gry
n. (grī)
1. A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] Locke.
2. Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]
Since "gry" ends up with gry.. it meets the condition.
I was just going to trade the words prime and minister, saying the trade of prime minister is minister prime. But your answer is very clever -- any American who doesn't understand it should be ashamed of their high school diploma.
Dozy your riddle INCREASED my suffering, since I were already suffering from gmatt's absolute genius, earlier in this thread.
Nov 6, 2007
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#29
King_William wrote:
gmatt heres another age old riddle only you might be able to solve.
"There are three words in the English language that end in GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is."
Follow your own link. The riddle is better stated:
Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Ziryab wrote: King_William wrote:
gmatt heres another age old riddle only you might be able to solve.
"There are three words in the English language that end in GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is."
Follow your own link. The riddle is better stated:
Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Ziryab, why do you think I posted the link?
Nov 6, 2007
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#31
The best solution to the -gry puzzle I've seen so far.
Also, this should go over well:
lol
King_William wrote: gmatt wrote: Dozy wrote:
Here's another glitch to add to pawnshover's knight puzzle.
I just had a message from my friend Looby who was mated by a pawn check which he could have avoided by capturing PxP e.p. The computer obviously ended his options when it decided he was in check with nowhere to go and consequently was not entitled to another move. At the time he was a piece up for three pawns and the game may well have gone either way. It was certainly not mate.
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=913811This game was incorreclty declared as won by checkmate most likely because the logic checking for checkmate does not take en passant capture under consideration when checking all legal moves.
Do you really think that might be the problem?
Don't be too quick to conclusions, if you've ever programmed a fair sized application with logic you might often by surprised at what causes certain logical inconsistencies.
gmatt wrote: King_William wrote: gmatt wrote: Dozy wrote:
Here's another glitch to add to pawnshover's knight puzzle.
I just had a message from my friend Looby who was mated by a pawn check which he could have avoided by capturing PxP e.p. The computer obviously ended his options when it decided he was in check with nowhere to go and consequently was not entitled to another move. At the time he was a piece up for three pawns and the game may well have gone either way. It was certainly not mate.
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=913811This game was incorreclty declared as won by checkmate most likely because the logic checking for checkmate does not take en passant capture under consideration when checking all legal moves.
Do you really think that might be the problem?
Don't be too quick to conclusions, if you've ever programmed a fair sized application with logic you might often by surprised at what causes certain logical inconsistencies.
Yeah dude but the probable cause you stated where extremely obvious...
Nov 17, 2020
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#35
The "insuffiecent material draw" is kinda broken on chess.com because here even though both players have a bishop ( which is not enough to checkmate noramally) black is still in checkmate which means that there is still a chance for checkmate in this endgame (same for this position but with knights) offcors, black will need to terribly blunder for this to happen but the game should just not end in a draw, maybe if they are high skilled players they agree to a draw so again draw automatically in this types of positions does not make any sence.
talliholic wrote:
The "insuffiecent material draw" is kinda broken on chess.com because here even though both players have a bishop ( which is not enough to checkmate noramally) black is still in checkmate which means that there is still a chance for checkmate in this endgame (same for this position but with knights) offcors, black will need to terribly blunder for this to happen but the game should just not end in a draw
Actuaally, even in rated tournaments in real life, if both players have King + bishop, it's automatic draw. The idea is that you cannot "force" checkmate.