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Today at TASVideos we get a little chess puzzle. It's white's move and he can checkmate in 1. Can you find the mate in 1?
Watch the movie to find out!
Noxxa: Nice little puzzle and showcase, but obviously this isn't worth a site publication. Rejecting.

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Posted: 4/1/2015 8:42 PM
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TASVideoAgent
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #4644: adelikat's NES Battle Chess "Mate in 1" in 00:44.41
Posted: 4/1/2015 10:54 PM
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AntyMew
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Who the fuck is white
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Posted: 4/1/2015 11:26 PM
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Anty-Lemon wrote:
Who the fuck is white
I'm guessing red. PxB ++. EDIT: nope, nvm, wouldn't work. NxQ. PxB is only check. Also, feeling too lazy to actually download the video and a ROM to watch it.
Posted: 4/1/2015 11:34 PM
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My hope was that the joke was that the board was rotated. The white (blue) pawns on the left and right hand sides of the board quash that theory, though. If you can find a chess game that allows you to rotate the board 90 degrees (or I suppose 180 degrees, though that's less fun), that might be a good April Fools joke for next year.
Posted: 4/1/2015 11:40 PM
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Ford wrote:
NxQ.
Where are you even seeing that? I thought it was some sort of glitch because there isn’t any mate possible.
Posted: 4/1/2015 11:43 PM
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ALAKTORN wrote:
Ford wrote:
NxQ.
Where are you even seeing that? I thought it was some sort of glitch because there isn’t any mate possible.
Pxb8 Nxb8
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Posted: 4/1/2015 11:48 PM
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I misunderstood the NxQ as being a new solution rather than the next move of why his previous failed.
Posted: 4/1/2015 11:54 PM
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No yt encode? :D
Posted: 4/2/2015 12:07 AM
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Anty-Lemon wrote:
Who the fuck is white
quote of the year 2015 Wait let me try my hand at this solution: NxCy JXQ Acmlm. Deign.
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Posted: 4/2/2015 3:00 AM
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Deign.
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Posted: 4/2/2015 3:41 AM
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1 chess game down, several hundred more left. ;)
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This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 4/2/2015 4:23 AM
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Here's a hint: First play 1. c8=Q Nxc8 , then take back those moves. Now what? Solution: 1. Qb7# ; the pawn on c7 moves and captures towards the left (towards the a-file) according to a glitch in Battle Chess.
Posted: 4/2/2015 6:32 PM
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Anty-Lemon wrote:
Who the fuck is white
I am. Nice to meet you. n_n
Samsara wrote:
Anty-Lemon wrote:
Who the fuck is white
quote of the year 2015 Wait let me try my hand at this solution: NxCy JXQ
Quote of 2015.
teo420 wrote:
No yt encode? :D
Let me fix that. ^-^
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Posted: 4/2/2015 9:08 PM
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I would just like to note that this movie fails to color a dinosaur.
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Posted: 4/2/2015 10:34 PM
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FractalFusion wrote:
Here's a hint: First play 1. c8=Q Nxc8 , then take back those moves. Now what? Solution: 1. Qb7# ; the pawn on c7 moves and captures towards the left (towards the a-file) according to a glitch in Battle Chess.
took me some time to understand that without the encode... i'll still wait for it before voting yes, but nice find
Posted: 4/4/2015 4:24 PM
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An encode would be great (I can't run Bizhawk). If that's a legit bug and not merely an AFD joke, I'd be curious how it works. Chess problem composers love this stuff -- "White takes back his last move and mates in 1" is a pretty standard setup.
Posted: 4/4/2015 8:32 PM
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For those who want an encode: Link to video
goldenband wrote:
Chess problem composers love this stuff -- "White takes back his last move and mates in 1" is a pretty standard setup.
Yeah, but this AFD joke relies entirely on a Battle Chess bug. Without knowledge of the bug, it really isn't funny in any way. I found it funny because I already knew what the bug was before I even saw the movie (because I had played around with it before and even made a wiki page). I can't say the same for anyone else though.
Posted: 4/4/2015 9:44 PM
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Posted: 4/5/2015 12:34 AM
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So executing c8=Q, then taking it back allows the pawn (now back at c7) to capture horizontally, forcing the mate after Qb7? Am I getting that right?
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Posted: 4/5/2015 2:38 AM
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boct1584 wrote:
So executing c8=Q, then taking it back allows the pawn (now back at c7) to capture horizontally, forcing the mate after Qb7? Am I getting that right?
Yeah, pretty much.