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  • Relevant: https://youtu.be/ucGhD2hC_6s

    For those who don’t know, iwantcheckmate is a really fun and wholesome chess YouTuber who usually plays chess variants and chess-themed games, and often creates challenges for himself against bots (mostly Martin from chess dot com). He’s a very capable chess player (rated 2100 or so, IIRC) and it’s really fun to watch him explain his thought process and take even his losses in good spirit even in videos where he does genuinely care about winning. He uploads daily (more or less), really fun for casual watching even if you know nothing about chess (like me!), can’t recommend him enough!

    The linked video is from 2 days ago where he challenges himself to beat Martin without going offside :)




  • I let the engine fully analyze each move according to whatever the default settings are, and got:

    [Variant "Horde"]
    [FEN "2nnn3/2nkn3/2nnn3/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP w - - 0 1"]
    
    1. h6 N6f7 2. h7 Nf8 3. bxc6+ Nexc6 4. g6 Nh8 5. dxc6+ Nxc6 6. d5 Nxa5 7. bxa5 Nhxg6 8. fxg6 Nxg6 9. d4 Nh8 10. f5 Ke7 11. g5 Kf7 12. d6 Ne7 13. h5 Nc6 14. h6 Ne7 15. d7 Nc6 16. g6+ Kf8 17. a6 Nd8 18. dxe8=R+ Nxe8 19. a7 Ke7 20. g7 Kd7 21. gxh8=Q Nc7 22. Qg7+ Kc8 23. h8=Q Kb7 24. Qxd8 Kxa7 25. Qgxc7+ Ka6 26. Qdc8#