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But the important thing is when you check out, make sure to use those sweet discount codes, like scam12 at checkout. That'll get you up to 25% off. We're talking $10 discount for an order of $40 or more. That's like a 25% discount. The best part is not only will you be getting a sweet, fat discount, you'll be making us look good. And you will be keeping Scam School in business. The business of stealing beer. Do you guys have different house rules on whether or not you can promote a pawn to a queen? Or can you have two queens on the table? Is that established? What's the story with that Casinoslots South Africa? Because I've run into some people who have house rules where you can't have two queens, or something stupid. That's just dumb. That's made up stupidity, Brushwood. All right, well I will say, just to be totally fair here, that anything goes. You can promote any piece you want in the game. That's fine. Here's the puzzle. And the puzzle is I want you to imagine we had an epic battle. Here's the set up, right here, all right? It's white's turn. And in fact, I'll spin it around so you can be white. It's white's turn, and white needs to mate in one move. What is the one move under the conditions I've set up where it's possible for white to mate? I'm thinking of [? crowning, ?] but then you take. So that doesn't work. When you take. So what you're saying is whatever this guy turns into, the king could take and he's protected. That's not a mate. So it has to mate on the move, right? Yes. It has to be in one, in one. So in other words, the black king can have no move. In a single move, it has to suddenly become checkmate. And then we've got the queen here. Which is good, because that puts him in check. Right, but it doesn't mate, because you've still got your space. So when you say got your space, you mean-- You still got this move. Could move there. Right. Good point, good point. So this is the move that I'm trying to avoid. Right, you want to not allow. I have to prevent you from doing this move and attacking you at the same time. OK, so you don't like the queen, because even if you check there or check there, either way the king can move in. You can move there. That's good, that's good. And then the pawn there, you move there. And if the pawn promotes, even if it turns into a queen-- The king takes. Takes, right. You still have that spot. Right, gotcha. What about the rook? Anything you can do with the rook? No Brian, that's stupid. No, I don't see it. I can't really do anything with the rook that can actually give you-- I mean, especially the pawn's in the way. Yeah, the pawn's in the way. Of course, yeah. Good point. I don't see it. I can do this move, but I'm still in the same spot where-- That's true, you'd be able to move there. So, if I have to mate you in one, it seems like from my perspective, that the only thing I can do it with is with the queen. If someone else figures it out, are they allowed to chime in? I'm not going to lie, there's one person in this room and I posed the puzzle. He solved it in ten seconds. Who wants to know the answer to this one? Three people. Everyone else leave. What were the initial conditions that I set up? I said two things. Do you remember what they were, Edwin? Oh, OK. Well, if you go like that. No, it's white's turn, it's white's turn. No, you said it wasn't. OK, you did. You're right, I did mention that it was white's turn. I mentioned that is was white's move. And I get to make one move. There goes my one move. And if white could actually move black's piece, that would be way convenient, right? But I said two things. I said it's white move, white needs to mate in one. But before that, I cleared up an ambiguity. I said that there are some house rules where they don't like you having two queens or whatever. So I said for the record, you could promote to any piece in the entire game. Including a king? No. Well no, you can't have two kings. That would be just silly. Even is you promote to a Bishop, it can still take it. What if you promoted-- To a black knight? Checkmate. But technically, that's not even-- you can't do that. But technically-- and that's the key to a great scam, is you've got to lay it out right in front of them to where only after the fact-- you're pissed off, and I'm sorry. I'll buy you a beer is what I'll do. That's how you do scam school. Now, I have no idea if this is true or not, but the story I heard is that back in the 17th century, some Russian grandmaster posed this problem, because until then, there had never been a case where anybody would ever want to promote to a piece of another color, and that he posed this puzzle as an answer for why you need to make it an official rule that you can only promote within your same color. I have no idea if that's true or not, and I'm sure the folks who watch Scam School at home are going to send me emails saying whether or not that's the case. But I hope you guys enjoyed it. And Edwin. Thank you. You were a super awesome sport. Thank you guys. Congratulations to Elliot, and all you guys are awesome. First and foremost, want to give a huge thanks to Kurt Andersen, friend of the show, for sharing with us that puzzle we had to promote to the black piece. That one blew my mind. And I loved how many chess experts it fooled, including here at Stanford. How awesome is that? Of course, I want to hear about your success stories and failure stories. So hit us up at the forums at scamschool.tv, where you can see all of our episodes right back to episode one. If you're doing the Twitter thing, why don't you follow me at twitter.com'shwood. I promise it'll be fun and interesting. We'll have a good time. Really. Probably. Probably not. If you want to suggest your favorite bar scan, write me directly at [email protected]. And don't forget, you're going to want to join us next week, because we're going to do a special art house version of Scam School. It'll all be black and white, it will not be in English, and you will fall asleep instantly. It'll be boring.
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