@chessaddictress: I completely agree. We have to actually begin the puzzle before giving up...
Your idea could possibly work! What's say I start from one end, you start from the other and AndyClifton starts in the middle... that's a great idea, chessaddictress. Once we all meet at a certain spot, we should have it nearly completed? Although, I have to say that this is like pi. 3.1415... It just seems to go on forever!
The Hardest Puzzle.
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OK this is good Ms. tress, I am lettuce grower so that is OK!!
@heinzie: And the Houdini accepted the position?
I just saw that I spelled "lettuce" as "lettus" in my previous comment. No wonder I'm having problems with this puzzle.
@AndyClifton: OK, great!
@Heinzie: Do you want to join us? If we get more people, each person could get one of the 8 queens on the 4th rank, and we could either begin, or just sit around and talk about beginning or not beginning.
AndyClifton is a lettuce grower!!! Maybe he should be the team leader.
Maybe he should! I believe I have more charisma though.
That's fine with me. Charisma helps me to chomp.
@chessaddictress: Great. Me too.
Speaking of chomping, I have to go eat something before I pass out. (See, I'm delaying the beginning of work again!)
All right, see you then... Maybe you should go ask Andy for some lettuce?
heinzie wrote:
Amazingly, Houdini 3.0 indicates only 1. Qcxb5! leads to a decent advantage, rating this position at just +3.14
Seriously? Even Deep Rybka 4 crashes in this position.
Assuming we take Houdini's word for it - well then, the question then is: after Qcxb5, then what? One can quickly see the expotential increase in variables as the moves continue, can't one? That is one reason not to begin the puzzle, as I see it.
I completely agree. If the computer refuses to solve it, why should we? Or are we just doing this in order to delay the process, again?
chessaddictress wrote:
Good question, CalbaMan! You see, not only is the answer to this puzzle a secret, but the new rules of chess in their entirety are secret as well, and they will only be revealed at the moment someone solves this puzzle!
Quantum chess!
@k90762289487: Yep, that's it. Quantum chess! [What does quantum mean again?]
@CalbaMan: Correct. We're doing this in order to delay the process...again.
chessaddictress wrote:
@k90762289487: Yep, that's it. Quantum chess! [What does quantum mean again?]
@chessaddictress: Quantum means... it's time for you to get a dictionary! Sorry, bad joke. Quantum means:
Huh. My definition didn't show up.
@heinzie: Oh, I can beat computers. Don't take no stock in 'em.