RicOlie_2

My solution is as follows (to better illustrate the different options, I will bold, italicize, and underline definite moves, bold the first option and italicize the second. I will add bolding or underlining to variations after that, alternating between them) :

Turn 10: Same moves for both of us.

Turn 11a: I would have dropped my knight on 2iii, putting you in check.

Turn 11b: Here, it breaks into a couple possible variations. If you moved your king to 4i or 4ii, I would drop a lance on 4iii (turn 12a). You would have moved to either 5i or 5ii (turn 12b) and I would have then moved my rook to 3ii (and it would of course become a pawn). If you were on 5i, this would have put you in check and you would have had to move to 5ii (turn 13b). If you were already on 5ii, you could have moved either your pawn or your knight and then I would have dropped my token on 5iii, ending the game at turn 14a.

Turn 11b: If you had moved your king to 2i, the game would have played out slightly differently. I would have taken your pawn/rook with my knight (turn 12a). It would become a gold general and put your king in check. You could either take it, or move to 3i.

Turn 12b: For now I will assume you took it. I would have dropped my lance on 1iii (turn 13a), putting you in check once again. This would force you back onto 2i (turn 13b). I would have taken your tokin with my rook, making it a pawn. At this point, there are several things you could have done.

Turn 14b: If you took the pawn with your king, I would have dropped a rook on 3iii (turn 15a), putting you in check. Again, there are multiple possibilities here.

Turn 15b: I will assume you would have moved your king back to 2i. I would have dropped my tokin on 3i and checkmated you.

Turn 12b: If you instead moved your king to 2i, I would have dropped a rook on 2i, forcing your king onto 4ii. Then I would have dropped my tokin on 5iii: checkmate.

Turn 14b: If you moved your king to 4i or 4ii, I would have dropped a lance somewhere...I won't cover this though, because there are just too many possible moves you could have made.

Turn 15b: If you had moved your king to 4i or 4ii, I would have taken your silver general on 3iv with my rook, placing you in check with my bishop (turn 16a). You could have moved to a few different places, and I would have either moved my pawn forward to become a rook or dropped a lance in the same column as your king, forcing you into another column. You could have dropped pieces in between, but I will ignore that possibility because I cannot cover everything. Eventually I would have trapped you with a combination of my rook, lance, and tokin or silver general, but exactly how would take too long to cover.

And there you have it (mostly). If you ended up taking the options that led to the situation in the last two paragraphs, things would have taken a while longer, but I still might have been able to checkmate you. It's also possible that you might have made a comeback, and eventually won the game. However, that would have involved you making the choices up to and past turn 14b or 15b. If you hadn't made it up to then and moved your king to 4i or 4ii, I'm pretty sure I would have won. I think you had a chance though.

Tyrphanax said:

It's okay, I win all the rivalry games. That's the good part about being born and raised in one city and going to university in the other.

Also Ric Olie is less funny now.

 That's because there's some impostor (TV's Frink) who is pretending to be Ric Olie who was pretending to be Frink.

...You did mean that Ric Olie, right?

Thank you for your answer. One small note though: there was nothing said about the paramedics being in the same position as the angels. The video was made later, and they just happened to make the angels like that.

I have some answers for some things you brought up, but it's three in the morning here and I'm not about to try explaining things when I'm half asleep.

darth_ender said:

Anyhoo, I gotta get to bed.  Hopefully I'll read your solution tomorrow :)

Hopefully I'll have a solution tomorrow... :P

I'd like to play Micro shogi next.

Sure, I'll have to see if that's on the BCM Games software or if I need to download a Zillions file.

And I am interested in trying out another variant I haven't even suggested yet.  It's a recently invented game, but one that could be interesting.  It hasn't gained much following yet. But Micro shogi should come first, as it's style of play really helps when trying out the other.

Gee whiz, ender, you're allowed to take credit for it, you know! ;) You didn't tell me you had designed your own games. It looks fun. I imagine it's quite a bit different than playing on a square board, but I'd definitely be interested in trying it.

I think there are too many possible variations for me to be able to tell you how I would checkmate you from here, but I can probably come up with something beginning from turn eight, according to Zillions.

I tried to figure out how I could have checkmated you, and I got close, but I'm too tired to figure out a way that would have been any faster than what I ended up doing. I'll try again tomorrow. :P

SidVichyssoise said:

There are aspects of the 1997 Special Edition (but not subsequent DVD/Blu-Ray alterations) that don't bother me at all, so a definitive Star Wars for me would have some but not all of these. Two exceptions would be Greedo not shooting at Han and keeping Sebastian Shaw as the ghost of Anakin. Does anybody else out there fall into this camp?

 I agree, and what you are describing sounds to me like Adywan's edit.

darth_ender said:

Ah crap.  As if I hadn't made enough mistakes this game, I moved your king earlier to 5iv.  Now looking back, I see you had him on 4iv.

That sucks (for you), but I can't say I'm terribly sorry. ;)

Well, I'll confess to you now that you could have already forced a mate.  I thought I'd escaped, but with an error like I just made (thinking my G on 3iv was safe), there's no hope now.  At the very least, I would have dropped my last piece as a lance instead of a tokin.  That would have prevented this unequal exchange.  In any case, instead of duking it out for several more turns, I'd rather declare you the victor and challenge you to find out how you could have forced a mate in the last few moves.

Fair enough. I wouldn't mind playing it out, just to see if you could come back, but if you think it would only drag the game on longer, so be it. I do see a couple ways to checkmate you, which you could delay, if not prevent, but I'm still figuring out how I could have checkmated you in the last few turns.

Meanwhile, congratulations on beating me!  You played very well, and I'm happy to see you win.  I know I'd made several poor moves, but you took advantage of them and made several good ones, so you should be very proud :)

 Thank you! I didn't expect I would until a few turns ago, but I underestimated my chances of winning. When I saw your relatively long post I was sure you had forced a checkmate somehow, but I see that wasn't so. :)

Kx3iv

Rx3iv+P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rusfefmQDEs

Out of curiosity, what is the atheist explanation for things like this? Or do you just ignore these things and assume that there will be a scientific explanation in the future?

R*3iii, check

Lx3i+T

K-4iv

Rx3iv+P

P-5iv+R

This isn't usually a problem, but sometimes I don't get notifications for threads I'm subscribed to. The only such thread I know for sure is this one:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-about-a-game-of-Japanese-Chess-ie-Shogi-darth-ender-vs-RicOlie-2-now-playing-Kyoto-Shogi-a-small-but-challenging-unpredictable-variant/topic/16176/page/24/

Sometimes I get notifications, sometimes I don't. I haven't noticed any definite patterns, but it seems to happen when I am already in the Off Topic forum, so it isn't a real problem. I just thought I should mention it though, in case it is some kind of glitch with that thread.

http://www.historyorb.com/events/january/29

Skip down to 1984. That's where I got confused. At first glance, it looked like the same thing, but I guess that was a test model or something. I should have guessed since there wasn't a mention of the shuttle being destroyed.

TV's Frink said:

That's what this is.

 LOL

DominicCobb said:

Maybe we should have Ric Olie 2 conduct a vote as to which is the real thread?

 I vote that the thread in which I posted should be the real thread... Oh, wait, now I've posted in two threads.

:(

Kx4v

Actually, the reason I respond so quickly is because I homeschool and do most of my schoolwork on or near my laptop. I have desktop notification for my gmail and so I reply whenever I see a box pop up for my email notification for this thread. I also spend a lot of time on my computer in the evenings, which is why I'm so quick to reply then.

S-2iv+B

Wow, nice timing. I've been away from home since 4:30 and I just logged on to my computer about five minutes ago.

Warbler said:

RicOlie_2 said:

^You're a day or two early. The Challenger was launched on the 29th.

 incorrect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

 So it was. Maybe I'm thinking of the other one...whatever it was, it also started with a C, but more likely one of our sources is just wrong (I would guess mine).

Oops, double post.

I should also mention also that it is clean comedy, which I appreciate since it seems to be rather uncommon nowadays.

I like "This is That." It's a CBC "news" comedy which is just believable enough that some people fall for it and think it's real, but is hilarious if you are cognizant of its true nature. The voices of people they "interview" are pretty entertaining as well and so are the stories they "cover."

I believe you meant your topic title to read one of the following:

1. I would like a tissue and [an] apology...

2. I have an issue and an apology...

3. I would like to issue an apology...

or possibly

4. I have an issue (and I'm a Lucas apologist)...