A couple announcements before the puzzle:
Congrats to Nohatcoder for becoming the 2018 Tak Champion!
I hope you all got to see the final matches of this tournament. If you didn't get to view them live, almost all matches were recorded and posted to the USTA youtube channel.
Now that the Open is finished, it's time to get ready for the next event :)
The USTA will be attending PAX Unplugged in just a couple weeks. We are running a small tournament, trying to get in tons of casual games, and unveiling a prototype tournament/teaching Tak set.
After that, I think the next event will be my puzzle contest, happening around the end of January, to celebrate my 100th puzzle!
For those new to my puzzles, I try my best to post one every Saturday night (EST). They are usually one of the following types: Tinue (game ending via forced road), Tinue Avoidance (is there a way out?), Gaelet (game ending via flat count), and Best Move (what would you do, and why?).
The type featured tonight is a Tinue puzzle. Tinue is defined as a board state in which no matter what the opposing player does during their turn (White, in this instance), a road win will be awarded to the other player (Black) on their next turn. If you are familiar with Chess, Tinue is very similar to Checkmate.
The best way to solve these puzzles is to find a move that forces your opponent into doing something. Then, you use that forced move to force another move, until you have won. Sometimes there are more ways than 1 to go about this. While I love seeing the different variations, usually the shortest path to a forced win is considered best. The following is a simple example to show how this works:
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 have noticed some people commenting directly to my blog post when answering puzzles. I would kindly ask that you post your answers on the appropriate post on the Reddit page for Tak (r/tak). This will make it easier for me to respond in a timely manner. On that note, I would like to also apologize to those same people for my delayed replies.
The new Reddit spoiler tag is shown below:
>!spoiler!<
Ex: >!35. a3> 3b2+!<
Thank you and enjoy!!
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