Hello, all!
I didn't have the time this week to get into a battle with Tako, but I did get in a few games against AaaarghBot. This week's puzzle is from one of those games.
For the purpose of this puzzle, Tinue is defined as a board state in which no matter what the opposing player does during their turn (Black, in this instance), a road win will be awarded to the other player (White) on their next turn. If you are familiar with Chess, Tinue is very similar to Checkmate.
There are 2 similar branches in this puzzle. In one, the Tinue board state is reached in 3 moves; in the other, 5 moves. This would mean the win would come on win 5 or 7 respectively.
Please form your answer with PTN or a link to your solution via ptn.ninja. Also, be sure to use the spoiler tag so as not to ruin it for later puzzle solvers.
I believe all responses by Black are singular and forced. If the response is not singular and forced, then any response results in the same following move by White or the defensive moves by Black have ready responses by White and those defense/offense pairs are interchangeable in regards to order. Of course, I could have made a mistake...in that case, let me know so I can fix it or, at least, apologize.
UPDATE: The Reddit site has updated and the newer version does not recognize the older spoiler tag - " [spoiler text](/spoiler) ". The new version has it's own spoiler tag " >! spoiler text !< ". Unfortunately, the new spoiler tag does not work on the old Reddit. So, for the time being, since we have community members using both new and old Reddit, both tags need to be used. I found a way to nest these spoiler tags:
>! [spoiler text](/spoiler) !<
Ex: >!<
I know it's a bit of a pain, but eventually, we should be able to switch over to the new tag only.
Enjoy!!
P.S. If you have suggestions for puzzle board states, please let me know. If you would like to post them yourself but don't know how, I can also help with the behind-the-scenes steps.
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