MistyBanqi against people

Three games MistyBanqi, the site’s banqi bot, played against people on Mistboard, from the article How MistyBanqi Plays and How It Was Built: a win that clears the board, a won position it draws by repetition, and a general one soldier hunts into the corner. Each chapter opens into its own deal; the notes say what the replay shows.

3 chapters

1. Misty clears the board95 moves

   MistyBanqi has the first seat, and the first flip turned up black, so it plays the black pieces. It loses an elephant, an advisor and a horse in the first twelve moves, takes the red general on move 25, then wins the rest back capture by capture until the player has no piece left…

   MistyBanqi takes the red general.

2. Up ten pieces to two, drawn by repetition64 moves

   MistyBanqi has the first seat and plays red. Move 56 is the last flip or capture of the game, and it leaves MistyBanqi up ten pieces to two. From move 57 one of its pieces steps between g1 and g2 while the player’s piece follows it between f1 and f2, and on move 64 the position a…

   The last flip of the game. MistyBanqi is up ten pieces to two, with nothing left to capture.

3. One soldier hunts the general into the corner153 moves

   MistyBanqi has the first seat and turned up the black pieces; the player has red. From move 44 a single red soldier hunts its general into the a1 corner and leaves it with no legal move. The general is lost on move 86, and MistyBanqi wins anyway on move 153.

   MistyBanqi has the black pieces. Its general is on b1, and the red soldier that will hunt it is on b4.