NP Comic for Saturday, May 6, 2023

[Darth Fluffy 302]

NP Comic for Saturday, May 6, 2023

Dan has a plan. I don't see anything beyond George and Larry's speculation, so wondering what Nanase's additional insight is.

The checker board configuration looks improbable. It seems that white should have already taken that piece that is threatening to jump and king. The white piece blocking the white jump had to move after the black jumping piece moved, in which case why did white not jump the black piece earlier?

Now we need a black chicken to jump the white chicken . . .

 

[mlooney 3,417]

17 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

The checker board configuration looks improbable. It seems that white should have already taken that piece that is threatening to jump and king. The white piece blocking the white jump had to move after the black jumping piece moved, in which case why did white not jump the black piece earlier?

For some reason I'm pretty sure that the mental checker board that Nanase has isn't a full game, just enough for her to make the move needed to show she has worked out an idea of what to do.  I would expect Nanase to be a Go player, but that would be harder to show to a western audience.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Didn't Nanase reveal earlier in this story that she prefers Checkers to Chess?  ( Would a visit from Tim Rice alter that opinion? )

No mater what the plan may be, it will likely be of the So-Somthing-It-Just-Might-Work variety.  A Scooby Doo Catch-The-Villain-Trap seems likely.  Does Nanase have an Ascott?

 

[mlooney 3,417]

12 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

  Does Nanase have an Ascott?

No, but someone needs to ask The Dan for a sketchbook of her wearing one.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

7 hours ago, mlooney said:

For some reason I'm pretty sure that the mental checker board that Nanase has isn't a full game, just enough for her to make the move needed to show she has worked out an idea of what to do.  I would expect Nanase to be a Go player, but that would be harder to show to a western audience.

It's not a full game, I agree. But the configuration would not normally arise.

The best way to explain it is with a chess example. If you saw something similar with two white bishops on the same color, your first thought would be 'That's an error." The situation could arise, but it is improbable. White would have to advance a pawn to the last rank and choose a bishop; the space would have to be the same color as the one an existing bishop was on. And so on . . .

If you look at the corner that Nanase is imagining, there is no reasonable sequence of events that gets there without ignoring obvious jump opportunities.