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Simultaneous Chess (Posted on 2002-09-10) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Two reasonably competent chess players are discussing chess in a bar. A duffer comes up and challenges them to simultaneous matches, with the duffer playing white on one game, and black on the other. He offers a substantial bet on the outcome. However, since he's inexperienced, he will win the bet unless the two experienced players as a whole do better than the duffer. (That is, two draws or one win and one loss will result in the duffer winning the bet.)

The challenge is accepted, and play starts. After a few moves, the experienced players throw up their hands in disgust, and pay off the bet.

Question 1: What happened?

Question 2: Having accepted the challenge, what ought the experienced players to have done in order to win?

See The Solution Submitted by Jim Lyon    
Rating: 4.1667 (12 votes)

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  Subject Author Date
Solutionre(2): Your answer to question 2 is incompleteDej Mar2008-02-09 23:34:54
No Subjectalex2006-08-05 02:59:20
In a moviepcbouhid2005-11-22 06:39:05
yepEric2003-12-01 11:09:14
No Subjectasad2002-12-24 12:59:10
Solutionre: adjournJim Lyon2002-09-12 14:18:07
re: Play to losefriedlinguini2002-09-11 10:49:12
Play to loseC Tanaka2002-09-11 07:27:20
adjournCheradenine2002-09-10 23:51:08
Questionre: Your answer to question 2 is incompletelevik2002-09-10 18:41:54
Your answer to question 2 is incompleteTomM2002-09-10 18:00:25
SolutionSneaky playerHappy2002-09-10 10:49:37
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