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| Aug 24, 2015 at 18:50 | comment | added | warspyking | @Peter Taylor A chess piece should be a physical piece. Idk, maybe it's just me, but I don't call my pawn a "man". | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 18:48 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Not universally, whereas man is unambiguous. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 17:57 | comment | added | warspyking | @Peter Taylor A pawn is a piece. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 17:54 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Is "Pieces do not control the square they occupy" intended to allow pawns to control the square they occupy? If not, it should say "Men do not control the square they occupy". | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 17:43 | comment | added | warspyking | @Matthew0898 "and all your pieces must be the same color." | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | Matthew0898 | Does a single color need to control the board, or can one color control a portion of the board, with the other color covering the remaining locations? | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 12:51 | history | edited | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 20:15 | vote | accept | warspyking | ||
| Oct 17, 2014 at 9:54 | answer | added | Leon Bouquiet | timeline score: 18 | |
| Oct 16, 2014 at 13:39 | vote | accept | warspyking | ||
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| Oct 16, 2014 at 6:19 | answer | added | DPenner1 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 9:45 | comment | added | warspyking | @justhalf puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/2907/… | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 2:33 | comment | added | justhalf | @warspyking: Perhaps you can create another question to contain all the answers for previous interpretation of your question? It seems possible to have a score less than 30 in that, I would like to see it improved. =) | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 20:38 | comment | added | warspyking | Exactly, you want to clarify anything else for others? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:56 | comment | added | YenTheFirst | so, then, do you mean that you can't use more than 2 rooks, 2 bishops, etc.? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:29 | history | edited | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:29 | comment | added | warspyking | @Yen Only 1 colour set was implied. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:02 | comment | added | YenTheFirst | By "not any more than the average set", do you mean that you can't use more than 4 rooks(2 white, 2 black), 4 bishops, etc.? i.e., is the 30-cost Bishop solution valid? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:52 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | not at all. if you have an answer put it up. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:51 | comment | added | warspyking | @d'alar Would it be wrong to try and answer it myself to give others an idea? This is a Q&A site. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:41 | history | edited | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:17 | history | edited | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:12 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | maybe just leave it and leave a little apology in the question. then upvote the guy who did it properly | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:10 | comment | added | warspyking | @d'alar'cop Should I remove that requirement? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:09 | comment | added | warspyking | True... Maybe I should remove that requirement? Although I kinda wanted an answer to this. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:08 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | great, now all current answers are wrong :p | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:02 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | well it may still work because you still want to minimise points (8 rooks is losing). franjly I think minimising points is interesting enough... it also happens to be what everyone is already doing | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:01 | history | edited | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | warspyking | @d'alar I should probably clarify that you cannot promote pawns, that would result in people making like 8 rooks. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 17:58 | comment | added | warspyking | @d'alar'cop I just realized how much confusion there was after getting back from school. It took me hours to realize this and now some answers are incorrect, I really messed up a good puzzle didn't I? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | what about promoted pawns? my answer still works if promoted pawns are allowed | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 17:55 | history | edited | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 17:41 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | hey warspy, shall we modify the question to make it fit the spirit of the answers? (ie lift the restriction about using a side or less - which is unclear based on all the activity anyway) | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 14:25 | answer | added | Ronald | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 12:56 | comment | added | oerkelens | @RossMillikan: A solution using the complete set of pieces seems academic. With 4 rooks and two queens you're mostly done. I read "You may not use any less than the original set" as "you may not use any piece that is not in the original set" - the question remains if you are allowed to use more pieces than the original set; if not, solutions with more than 4 bishops would be illegal. | |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 6:13 | comment | added | IQAndreas | What do you mean by "You may not use any less than the original set."? | |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 3:06 | comment | added | justhalf | That sounds weird, especially considering that this question comes from his comment on this question, in which there is a solution using the complete set, and that OP pointed out that there are unneeded pieces. Let's wait for OP to wake up then :) | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 3:04 | comment | added | Ross Millikan | @justhalf: But if the original set cannot control the whole board, you pay for each piece you add. This restriction forces people out of uniform solutions based on lots of bishops. I don't have an answer, but think it is a good puzzle for that reason. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 3:00 | comment | added | justhalf | @RossMillikan: The problem is OP also said "Accepted Answer goes to the person that has the least score", which implies that not every piece should be used, otherwise everyone has the same score! Also the question title is "How many chess pieces are needed". Perhaps OP needs to clarify the first sentence. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 2:49 | comment | added | Ross Millikan | I think this is an excellent puzzle. Well defined goal, rules, and scoring (though the two answers so far fail using all the normal set of pieces.) | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 2:37 | answer | added | justhalf | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 2:32 | comment | added | justhalf | Can you allow us to use the King? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 1:54 | comment | added | justhalf | Can we use black pawn and white pawn? They attack differently. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 1:13 | answer | added | d'alar'cop | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 1:07 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | e.g. give the knight a character and personality... the are bounding across the kingdom as spies. some of the spies are double-agents so you don't want to encounter any of your own team - now it sounds less like a dry chess position where knight can't attack eachother | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 1:05 | comment | added | warspyking | @d'alar How do you suppose I do that? | |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 0:54 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | Yep, and they are tricky logic-based, constraint satisfaction puzzles - they aren't riddles however. Maybe you could try to pitch it as a riddle. Good night! | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 0:53 | comment | added | warspyking | That's... Unreasonable. They are still puzzles -_- | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 0:52 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | I don't know but they downvote everything to do with chess... (they just removed their downvote on this question) | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 0:52 | comment | added | warspyking | @d'alar'cop Who? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 0:51 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | someone really dislikes these chess puzzles | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 0:50 | history | asked | warspyking | CC BY-SA 3.0 |