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#699694
Topic
How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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darth_ender said:

Bx5e

Do you mean Bx5a? I have no pieces on row e that you can take and your bishop can't take any of my pieces besides that one. If that's your move, Rx5a+

Playing nonsuicidally (is that a real word? ;) ) doesn't look much better.  I would have simply taken your gold with my bishop instead, at which point you would take my bishop with your knight and promote it, which means I'd have to retreat my rook where you would surely have it trapped by so many promoted pawns and knights supporting each other.  There was no hope of keeping my rook, and the best I could do is try to save my bishop by not taking your gold (which would result in a loss of the rook as well), or not taking your knight right now with my bishop (which drags it out and does little to lengthen my game).  

True.

You've pwned me this game, completely legitimately, and I'll never underestimate you or make such hasty moves in the beginning with you again.

 Darn it! ;)

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#699618
Topic
How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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Did you make an alternate move at that point? If you click onto a different move on a line which has two or more move notations, then it will show the following moves. But in case that isn't the problem, here you are (promoted pieces in bold, your pieces capitalized, and mine lowercase):

L--R--KN-
-P-N-B---
Pppn-G-PP
--P---P--
-----Sb--
p--s-----
--pp-pppp
-l--r-gsl
l----g-nk

My pieces in hand: pppgs

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#699569
Topic
Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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I suppose the prequels ruined my enjoyment of Tatooine, but I would rather not see it at all. There are so many neat places in the galaxy that we could see and I would prefer only seeing one or two planets that we've seen before, and no remote planets like Tatooine, Dagobah, Hoth, etc. that have already had a lot of screen time.

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#699510
Topic
Who'd like to try a chess variant? Now playing Xiang Qi, a.k.a. Chinese chess
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Assuming your move is bedexf6, my move is (EDIT: I'm not getting impatient, I just thought I'd move the game along a bit more quickly since I'll be gone for a few hours once again. Your most likely move in each game seem obvious to me anyway, but still confirm them both, in case you chose to do something else for some reason.)...

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...Nxf6

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#699507
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The Historical Discussion Thread: All Discussion Pertaining to History is Welcome
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April 9:

A.D. 1483: Edward V succeeds Edward IV as King of England, but is never crowned, and disappears after being imprisoned in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard. Both boys were presumably murdered.

A.D. 1667: The first public art exhibition is held in Paris.

A.D. 1869: The Hudson's Bay Company relinquishes its' territory to Canada.

A.D. 1912: The R.M.S. Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for New York.

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#699502
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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darklordoftech said:

RicOlie_2 said: And what relevance did your comment have to J. J. Abrams directing Episode VII?

It's the director's job to put things in a movie.

 The thread title isn't "What do you want J. J. Abrams to put in Episode VII", so you should have phrased it like this:

darklordoftech should have said:

I hope he shows the bad guys being bad rather than just labeling one side "good" and one side "evil".