People have been trying to do a TAS of this game, but have failed miserably.
Chess is about pawning, and when it comes to this, leave it to the experts!
This movie is slower than adelikat's, but in exchange is the most awesomest TAS that was and will ever be submitted. Also, it's extremely optimized, I spent 15 minutes months looking for improvements and I could beat my previous run, which the whole world considered optimal.
Now 0.21 seconds faster!!!!!!!!111111111111
FractalFusion: Judging, because everyone likes Battle Chess.
FractalFusion: Some may like it as a chess composition, but, like most (all?) chess video games, it doesn't serve any real purpose as a TAS. This one doesn't even have the excuse of taking advantage of a bad computer player.
I'm still waiting for an encode of the actual submission so that I can vote no.
Wait, the watch-before-vote rule doesn't work like that?
Although I can't really tell whether you're being serious (it's way to late and I've had copious amounts of alcohol) I'll just assume you are, so I don't end up being a dickhead for ignoring you. Here goes: The actual submission is just a slightly more optimized version of p4wn3r's old movie. The move list and everything is still the exact same. Hence, just think the old encode to be 0.21 seconds faster and you're done.
I'm still waiting for an encode of the actual submission so that I can vote no.
Wait, the watch-before-vote rule doesn't work like that?
Although I can't really tell whether you're being serious (it's way to late and I've had copious amounts of alcohol) I'll just assume you are, so I don't end up being a dickhead for ignoring you. Here goes: The actual submission is just a slightly more optimized version of p4wn3r's old movie. The move list and everything is still the exact same. Hence, just think the old encode to be 0.21 seconds faster and you're done.
I wasn't being entirely serious, although I wasn't entirely joking either. (0.21 seconds is quite a lot in a TAS this long, especially one that's entirely execution-based...)
Voting No, because I don't see any difference between this and an unassisted run, other than move entry speed. (Or even the same game played on an actual chessboard. Or in a book of chess puzzles.) I'm also not all that impressed by the actual solution itself, either; there are faster ways to win, so aiming for that particular ending is just showboating. (It'd be a lot more impressive if you constructed that mate starting from the opening position, against the computer AI; if you're going to use the board-setup feature, though, why don't you just set up the mating position directly?)
