No it's because he got the promotion rules right
You and I had the language right but messed up on this dynamic that some animals become Generals and some become "Running X" - only to converge again as "Dashing X"
This is, evidently, based on whether or not they are domesticated. I think it's just 1 or 2 answers that can be wrong based on this distinction though so it does end up being a luck thing.
Huber's answer was fully correct whereas ours each had those 1 or 2 errors
I checked yours again and it looks like you are getting it but the one that is still wrong is
"Wolf General" -> In this case there is no wolf general before dashing wolf, only "running wolf" because he's not domesticated
That's my understanding anyway
Regardless if you feel you should also get 2 points I am happy to give them, the points in this are just for fun
You can see in Huber's point 17 in his notes he figures it out. Maybe a little luck but he picked up that there was some distinction here and made the correct call
Regardless I'll give us a nice advantage by replacing that Japanese Chess in the current open problem set while Huber's still asleep. Should give us a few hours head-start
Technically I should also be replacing Basque Kinship (if Huber got it right) but haven't had time to solve that one myself yet so I don't want to check the answer
it says because of wild vs domesticated, yes, i see that now
the prompt suggests there are pieces that start at different rank but they show the furthest rank in the second name
so the way i saw it was that something starting at running upgrades to dashing
but a soldier only upgrades to general and a general upgrades to dashing (unless it's an object or etc)
but also i wasn't suggesting he shouldn't get points for being correct, i said what i said lol
actually that's not quite true
there was a reason i thought something could go to running from soldier and not general
in short i did not think about wild vs domesticated
Yeah initially I had the same thought, then was thinking everything progresses in a chain like:
soldier -> running or general (if domesticated) -> dashing
but looking closer I think it's:
domesticated
soldier -> running -> general -> dashing
wild
running -> dashing
Looking in the solution for examples that dispute this but I think this is what it is
I don't see any evidence that the running animal can be promoted to a general but we have examples of
Horse Soldier -> Running Horse
Horse General -> Dashing Horse
And then we have many examples of
Soldier -> General (direct)
Running -> Dashing (direct)
It could just be chains of 2 everywhere but then it would make a lot more sense for
Horse Soldier -> Horse General
Running Horse -> Dashing Horse
as pairs. So my theory is in this case it's a promotion chain of 4
yes thats where i landed with it
no as soon as it became wild vs domesticated the piece rank made sense because a wild animal would have no disciplinary role (as a soldier or a general)
but in terms of movement or tactics "running" and "dashing" can imply roles of course
Starting on numbers
Mfw everyone is having a genuinely good time in the linguistics olympiad thread and i start griefing it
Looks like nyte followed through on her threats in this thread: I show up at my GFS and all my stuff is packed up in a box. WTF man
Looks like I'm going to have a lot more time on my hands -- might try my hand at some of these PDFs...
Try the inkutkcutkkek numbers puzzle. It's right up your alley
Inuktuk attempt 2
Checked - roughly correct, little bit lazy at some parts
Do you guys read spoiler-d solutions/attempts at problems if you haven't done the problem yet?
I can avoid posting my own if they're the first in the thread (if it means others are less likely to attempt that problem because it's "solved")
