Pub Quiz strangeness

jackthezipper · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:08

It is.

Highest break can be more than 147 if other player makes a foul but the other player can't make a foul if it's from break-off.

jackthezipper · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:10

We had "what continent has not held the olympic games?"

We and many others wrote Antartica but the guy sweared blind it was not a continent. Despite around 70% of teams protesting.

Gilly · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:10

FTM said:
you would have to be pretty flukey to do it from a break though...as it would mean potting a red with your first shot..

Yup. Possible, though.

Aero · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:11

Gilly said:
That doesn't make much sense.

You cannot get higher than a 147 from a break off.

You can get much higher breaks incorporating fouls and referee mistakes.

Thats what I meant.

Me fail english? Thats unpossible. :rolleyes:

Aero

The Dread Pirate · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:12

jackthezipper said:
what continent has not held the olympic games?

Easy Atlantis mainly due to the fact it got lost

Morba · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:19

jackthezipper said:
It is.

Highest break can be more than 147 if other player makes a foul but the other player can't make a foul if it's from break-off.

no, your total score can be more than 147 but not a break.
a preceding foul score is not added to the break that comes after it

Majago · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:26

Morba said:
no, your total score can be more than 147 but not a break.
a preceding foul score is not added to the break that comes after it

It is possible to make 155 by potting a red and black from a free-ball which would then be added to the break.

edit: My friend's dad was in the Guiness Book of Records for getting a 151 in a tournament - google Wally West

platypus · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:26

Gilly said:
That doesn't make much sense.

You cannot get higher than a 147 from a break off.

Yes you can, if your opponent misses thereby gibing you a free ball.

jackthezipper · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:35

Thats not from a breakoff though, break off is the first shot.

no, your total score can be more than 147 but not a break.
a preceding foul score is not added to the break that comes after it

Meant to say foul resulting in free ball.

Lysander · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:41

JRS said:
Ah, get you. It's a matter of semantics rather than a matter of an epic failure of counting

It's not semantics, it's common sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool's_mate

Ben M · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:43

platypus said:
Er, fools mate is 2 moves.

erm no it's 3.
move pawn, move bishop, move queen.

The Dread Pirate · 26 Mar 2008 at 10:45

No it's not It's move Pawn & Move Queen Checkmate

JRS · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:08

Lysander said:
It's not semantics, it's common sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool's_mate

Quoted from your own link - "Fool's mate, also known as the 'two-move checkmate'". Emphasis is my own. Saying it's four moves as your opponent has to make two moves as well isn't correct.

Or have I missed your point?

Morba · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:09

Majago said:
It is possible to make 155 by potting a red and black from a free-ball which would then be added to the break.

edit: My friend's dad was in the Guiness Book of Records for getting a 151 in a tournament - google Wally West

thats different and not specified

but yes from that i agree.

Ben M · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:21

Capn' $qu!ff said:
No it's not It's move Pawn & Move Queen Checkmate

I've always thought of another set of moves, to the ones in the videos posted, as foolsmate. There is a way of checkmate in 3 moves which doesn't rely on your opponent making two moves which are as foolish as in the video (it does rely on them not moving certain pieces though, so it's still only something that catches out new players)

daz · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:27

Ben M said:
I've always thought of another set of moves, to the ones in the videos posted, as foolsmate. There is a way of checkmate in 3 moves which doesn't rely on your opponent making two moves which are as foolish as in the video (it does rely on them not moving certain pieces though, so it's still only something that catches out new players)

Think that's "Scholar's Mate"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholar's_mate

Ben M · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:33

daz said:
Think that's "Scholar's Mate"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholar's_mate

So it is, thanks very much for filling me in

Oh and it's 4 moves, haha.

platypus · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:34

Ben M said:
erm no it's 3.
move pawn, move bishop, move queen.

Then it isn't Fool's mate now, is it?

daz · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:34

It's the one everyone thinks of when you say "fool's mate" because it doesn't rely on your opponent being quite as idiotic as the two move one.
i.e. 1. e4 e5 is a lot more common than the "real" fool's mate.

Ben M · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:39

platypus said:
Then it isn't Fool's mate now, is it?

yes, we have established this.

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