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I would guess the goal is to beat a world champion while playing black and get accused of cheating.

So, I solved this challenge the "intended" way instead of just using an engine. But I'm pretty sure that you could just use an engine for longer than they are. Behind the scenes it appears to just be running stockfish with a timeout of "10" (10s? Didn't check what units, seems faster than 10s so maybe 10ms or something).

It's milliseconds (well except for 0, which stockfish considers an edge case)

See: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html , https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/3720

That said I don't think a strong chess engine alone would be enough to pass this puzzle.

Mind that you're reading a comment written by a dude who got p0wned by Stockfish searching only depth 0. I mean, if you're going down the path of fighting against the AI, you do need an engine.

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