Saturday, November 16, 2019

Puzzle #122: Mistakes Were Made? Tinue?

Hello, Takkers!

I have been in the unfortunate situation lately of not having much Tak time. I was able to sit down to a game while riding earlier this week, in an effort to shake off some rust and get back in the game, so to speak. The puzzle tonight comes from that game.

There are 2 goals to tonight's puzzle: 1) What mistakes can you see (for either side)? 2) The game ended abruptly (I went through a tunnel and lost cell signal), but I believe the end is Tinue for White. What is the Tinue sequence?

For those new to my puzzles, I try to post one every other Saturday night (EST) and respond to answers on Sunday morning. 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 (you can use the arrow keys to step through the moves and the number keys to select which branch you are following):




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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