• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 month ago

    You best bet is to launch a glider at c4. I recommend:

    Pattern type Spaceship
    Number of cells 5
    Bounding box 3 × 3
    Frequency class 1.8
    Direction Diagonal
    Period 4
    Mod 2
    Speed c/4 | c/4
    Heat 4

    Historical note: An R-pentomino tracked past T = 69 in late 1969 certainly implies that the glider, and a number of other objects such as blocks and blinkers, were first seen by Conway’s group before 1970.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
    251·
    1 month ago

    Call an arbiter. There’s a black pawn and a white pawn on their respective back ranks. That’s an illegal position.

      • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
        45·
        1 month ago

        What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you noob? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my chess club, and I’ve been involved in numerous speed tournaments on lichess, and I have over 300 confirmed check mates. I am trained in white and black, and I’m the top puzzle solver in my freshman class. You are nothing to me but just another check mate. I will windmill you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this chess meet up, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of grandmaster over the former USSR and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your Elo. You’re fucking lost, kid. My queen can be all over the board at anytime, and I can check mate you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my pawn. Not only am I extensively trained in check mate puzzles, but I have access to the entire arsenal of my side of the chess board and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass-pieces off the face of the board, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and your king and you will drown in it. You fucking lost, kiddo

      • stembolts@programming.dev
        101·
        1 month ago

        The size of the chess board is not related to the inability of some pieces to be on some colors… that only depends on the starting positions.
        Thus downvotes.
        Are you loggerheaded?

      • enkers@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        1 month ago

        Right, obviously! How could I have made such a careless mistake! T_T

        Just move the farthest pawn forward, past infinity.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    1 month ago

    This image gets worse the more you look at it because there are almost no legal moves and the few legal ones are within a contained space, but i did find the actual answer.

    Undefended white pawn allows a bishop to break free to then free the rooks.

    OP, i kinda recommend making this pawn and its cousins in the pattern black to make this truly unsolvable.