- Referee: Excuse me, Miss Williams, but according to §147 b, it’s not allowed to play Pokémon Sword during the tournament. An exemption is only possible for Pokémon Ruby.
- Logan: Are you out of your mind?! Let her play as much Pokémon as she wants!
|
|
Currently on hiatus :-(
 S&W in German/auf DeutschGaia (my fantasy comic) Scarlet (my science fantasy comic) |
|
| Sandra and Woo is supported by our patron gabbybird. Thank you very much! |
|
![[1252] Yuna’s Immortal Zugzwang Game I](/comics/2021-03-10-1252-yunas-immortal-zugzwang-game-i.png "[1252] Yuna’s Immortal Zugzwang Game I")
[1252] Yuna’s Immortal Zugzwang Game I
└ posted on Wednesday, 10 March 2021, by Novil
Click here to see the comments!
Sandra and Woo by Oliver Knörzer is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. See the About page for details.
Privacy Policy | Impressum | © 2008 – 2025 Oliver Knörzer
Would Omega Ruby be acceptable? I love Hoenn too, but going back to pre-split for physical and special moves is just such a huge downgrade.
You deserve all of the praise in the world for properly accenting the E in Pokémon.
LlednarTwem wrote:
Not just the physical/special split, but GBA Ruby would mean pre-Fairy type matchups, too. Having gone from Sinnoh to Galar and back, I can say firsthand that the resulting case of #DamnYouMuscleMemory would be horrible, especially if Yuna’s in the middle of the Gym Challenge.
As usual behind on the games. But thanks to some catch ups last year I am at least now getting the manga regularly now.:-D
Incidental trivia is the US localization of Dragon Quest V (the first port being Pre-Pokémon with monster recruitment) having several bosses named with a chess theme. Final story dungeon is named Mt. Zugzwang.
LlednarTwem wrote:
You got Omega Ruby on the SWITCH!?!
@Novil: Great comic! A small translation detail: “It’s not allowed to play…” is syntactically off, even though the meaning is certainly communicated clearly. I would recommend “Competitors are not permitted to play…”
according to section 1 of chess tournament rules, assaulting the ref is an immediate disqualification. (idk where it actually would say that, but it’s probably somewhere in the rules)
I’m aware this is a webcomic and not entirely realistic, the following is for amusement not a criticism:
Without the permission of the arbiter a player is forbidden to have a mobile phone or other electronic means of communication in the playing venue, unless they are completely switched off. If any such device produces a sound, the player shall lose the game. The opponent shall win. However, if the opponent cannot win the game by any series of legal moves, his score shall be a draw.
This also typically would be pretty much automatic, with little flexability for the arbiter. The question is, does this world have different laws of chess *Gasp* potentially not having tournament rules like the 2 minute rule, and maybe not having the 50 move rule. Or, did the arbiter allow the player to play pokemon ruby bc of it being easier to monitor if they’re communicating whilst pokemon sword may, via multiplayer, make it easier to do so? Was this an individual exception or a general tournament rule probably announced to the players in advance (in person or written down)?
@ Mega:
https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf
12.3 and 13.7b
@ Mega:
Appologies, that should be considered a violation of Article 12.1: “The players shall take no action that will bring the game of chess into disrepute.”
A Zugzwang is a position where whoever’s move it is has a disadvantage. Classic examples of this tend to be in the endgame. In general they can’t be thought of as positions where you don’t want to do anything, you instead want your opponant to make their position worse
…in so, so much trouble.
I tend to agree with Logan: if Yuna’s playing Pokémon, at least she doesn’t challenge the fundamental forces of the universe in a game of chicken. Which is a good thing for the continued existence of the Universe.
Inb4 Yuna has encoded a chess AI into some hardly visible detail of the Pokémon program.
I mean, why would she play a game with essentially one-dimensional mechanics on an external device, while solving chess in her head?
Though, knowing her in canon, more likely it’s just creative BM xD
Is “Zugzwang” really “Zugwang” in the German version? Or is this a typo?
I wouldn’t put it past Yuna to have packed a GBA (or at least a DS lite) and a copy of Ruby to the same venue as a Switch and a copy of Sword, just because she seems like the kind of person who can appreciate a less-recent game (and she’s just the level of mad-science to be that prepared).
One #GirlBoss Tennis side arc into a #GirlBoss Chess side arc. Is Woo even a character in the comic anymore? Like, if this is the direction the comic is going in that’s fine and all, but I really enjoyed when the comic was about a talking raccoon as well. :/
Not even Saphire, talk about the worse version exclusives.
@ CHARLES J PETRIE:
Definitely a typo – as pointed out in the very first German comment
Logan is distressed in a way that he looses his strategic thinking. His best chance to win is Yuna becoming bored and running outside to play with a stick, a leaf and her stuffed caterpillar.
@ lisalo:
Emerald is the ultimate version, IMO
@ LlednarTwem:
Emerald gets a pass, but only because it has the OG Battle Frontier.
@ Nowan:
Of course. Order is Emerald <Sapphire< Ruby.
Having gone through FIDE, international chess rules, VChess rules, and the wikipedia chess rules page, the highest rule value is one rulebook that reaches the 130s in errata. This implies that due to Yuna, they had to make an additional ~47 rules.
This isn’t really funny. Where’s the punchline?
@ Tristan:
It’s not funny, it’s just there to show Yuna is super smart at Chess because she’s a girl.
My only complaint is that I can’t see what squares the pieces are on. How can I tell who’s winning without seeing the board?
Good. Sword and Shield are the worst Pokémon games anyway.
@ Stephen:
Because she’s a girl? I assume, then, that Sandra, Larisa, and Hitomi are all masters of chess, as well?
Slightly disappointed that we don’t have a visible board state. Would make for a nice easter egg.
It’s clear that Yuna is thinking best when she plays Pokemon. If you take the game from her, she’ll become bored and demoralized and unable to concentrate on chess.
Or she programmed a milion different chess positions into the game and checks them without anyone noticed.
@ Harmony:
I’m taking it as a tournament specific rule, rather than a chess rule, in which case the tournament has a ton of rules of their own.
At least, this time victory can’t be stolen from her as it had been in science fair! 😉
Also, after the tournament, will she get bored and switch to Go instead? Additional advantage: there are no confusing ponies in Go…
Who else isn’t up to date on the latest Pokémon games, and googled Zugzwang expecting it to be a recent Pokémon, and was very surprised to find it’s actually a chess term and nothing to do with Pokémon? I’m sure it wasn’t just me.
As a seventy-three year old TERRIBLE chess player, I sympathize completely with Logan. Yuna would be terrifying in her thirties. As an elementary school child . . .
Zugzwang: A position in a game of chess where every move a player can make is to their disadvantage.
How many time do they update this strip a week
@ Stephen:
Fallacy! Take off!
Are there any rules against someone advising their opponent to move their piece to a certain location?
@ CHARLES J PETRIE:
It’s a typo, the word Zugzwang is actually a loanword from German.