MechJeb Chess

[Xyphos]

From what I understand, MechJeb is supposed to be an exact mechanical clone of Jeb, so I got to thinking:

During a long flight, Jeb and MechJeb play 100 games of Chess on the navigational display in the cockpit, who do you think wins the tournament and by how much?

I'm going to have to say MechJeb wins by 4 matches, due to Kerbal error.

it's kind of hard to win, when you're playing against yourself.

(this also raises an interesting idea for a mod...)

Edited August 6, 2015 by Xyphos

[Sharpy]

Jeb. He's got the screwdriver to remove MechJeb's advantage.

[Red Shirt]

Jeb. MJ would go in too hot on its turn and explode. Oh, wait, that would just kill Jeb as well.... so, never mind

[Randazzo]

Mechjeb would win, obviously, because it's cheating.

(or so I've heard)

Edited August 6, 2015 by Randazzo

[PB666]

Jeb. MJ would go in too hot on its turn and explode. Oh, wait, that would just kill Jeb as well.... so, never mind

MJ blacks out during an eclipse, Jeb wins. Or wait 'Open the cargo bay doors MJ, I can't do that Jeb' [spacey music murmering the the background]

[Yukon0009]

Probably 50/50 if MJ didn't go full out, remember although it was programmed with Jeb in mind, it's still a computer.

[PB666]

BTW you know the MechJeb is the Soul of past Jeb, some kind of accident. So Jeb and MJ can't coexist unless its a clone of Jeb.

[keeper]

Mechjeb would win, but only if Jeb allowed it to. It would end in a tie.

Jeb would come close, all of the times he loses

Mechjeb would occasionally balls it up right from the start.

[cantab]

Jeb would install FAR (Ferz Alternate Rules). Mechjeb will be rather hopeless in the FAR environment, handing real Jeb a string of easy wins.

[LordFerret]

Four turns into the game, Val walks into the room wearing her .... new spacesuit. What game?

[MaverickSawyer]

Stalemate, every time. Each game ends after a few minutes pointlessly chasing each others kings around the board.

[LordFerret]

I can't believe the word filter didn't like that. Let's try "alluring".

[Red Iron Crown]

Depends, are we talking about the "official" MechJeb release or Sarbian's dev build?