[MARATHON] Chess with a Gun

[usesPython]

Chess with a Gun

10x Chess Townie

3x Chess Mafioso

Chess Townie

Welcome to

Chess with a Gun

! You are a

Chess Townie

.

You have the following active ability:

• Each Day, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, you will challenge that player to a chess match that night and the loser will die.

You win if all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town-aligned player is alive.

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.

Chess Mafioso

Welcome to

Chess with a Gun

! You are a

Chess Mafioso

.

Your team-mates are

Flower

and

usesPython

. You may talk to them here.

You have the following active ability:

• Each Day, you may target a player. Assuming no interference with your action, you will challenge that player to a chess match that night and the loser will die.
  
• Thrice per chess match, you may ask the mod for computer assistance. You will receive the top 3 moves and their evaluation

You win if at least one mafia member is alive and all other players are dead (or if nothing can prevent the same).

Confirm by replying to this PM with a summary of your role.

Notes:

• Normal voting during the day
  
• No factional nightkill
  
• If someone's challenged by multiple people/challenged by someone while challenging someone they play all their games simultaneously
  
• Mafia's computer assistance is per chess match, not per night. This means a mafioso playing multiple chess matches can use more than 3 engine moves in one night
  
• Mafia are allowed to ask for help from their teammates in their chess games in the scum PT
  
• Mafia majority does not necessarily end the game. Only endgame if every townie challenging a different mafia member and winning every night while mafia do not issue challenges and simply vote during the day would result in a mafia victory or if the game goes to nighttime with chess challenges that would force the preceding to happen regardless of the outcome of the matches
  
• May want to add a timer for the chess games if they start dragging on
  
• Mod can get the engine move from the lichess analysis board
  How to use:
  1. Turn on the engine and open the settings menu
     
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  2. Configure the engine
     
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  3. Play the game to the current position and read the best move (Read up on chess notation if you don't know how to read the move)
     
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[usesPython]

I'd play this, but how would it run in marathon? I'd expect chess matches to not be very short, especially if scum can use chess engine.

If the chess matches start getting too long just add a timer. Alternatively if you want a timer from the start just have players play on lichess:

1. One player creates the game
   
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2. Posts the link in a PT/PM's it to the mod/however you want to do it as long as both the other player and the mod can get the link
   
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3. Other player joins the game
   
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4. At this point mod can spectate the game with the same link

[usesPython]

If you're doing the lichess method you can speed it up by having people attach the link to the lichess challenge when they're picking who to challenge

[usesPython]

Also in case it wasn't completely explicit: draws end with nobody dying (since if you draw you didn't lose)

[usesPython]

But then can't TvT just draw?

If the TvT knows it's TvT there's nothing stopping them from not issuing the challenge in the first place?

[usesPython]

Wait are you not allowed to talk during the match?

You pick who you want to match during the day and then the matches happen at night so no

[usesPython]

Setup could be changed to give nighttalk for people in a match if it makes it easier

[usesPython]

I mean, wasn't the original idea to have the matches happen in a PT? Which I assumed would allow talk.

You don't need talking to play chess, just chess tags like
e4 e5 Bc4 d6 Qh5 Nf6 Qxf7#

[usesPython]

besides unless the mod is on top of his game mafia would probably get sold out by their engine usage during the game (i guess that doesn't matter actually, idk)

Could replace it with something like "once per game have unlimited use of an engine"

[usesPython]

Yes but wouldn't you be able to talk in that PT?

Wasn't the original intent but we can add it in

[usesPython]

even with a like 10 mins max per game time control this doesn't sound like a great idea for marathon

How so? Realistically speaking we don't expect this game to go past like n3 with the amount of nightkills from everyone shooting so 15 minute days/10 minute nights would be around an hour and 15 minutes of gameplay

[usesPython]

even with a like 10 mins max per game time control this doesn't sound like a great idea for marathon

How so? Realistically speaking we don't expect this game to go past like n3 with the amount of nightkills from everyone shooting so 15 minute days/10 minute nights would be around an hour and 15 minutes of gameplay

expecting the non-challenged townies to be bored out of their mind really then

it's also expecting zero technical issues and stuff

Nothing stopping the non-challenged townies from having challenged someone during the day to play out their match at night