Illegal Position Contest!

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EndgameEnthusiast2357

^It's whites move though

KieferSmith
chekagain
Chessman265 wrote:

This is a common trick puzzle, because it appears in a semi-famous book, but is it possible for this position to be reached with white to move?

is the book the secret benedict soceity

deadmemer1
Wongkaiju wrote:
How to post ?

Bro

Kyobir
How about this?
romaniwnl
Easy mate in one
Leither123

Legal

As you already know, white has enough expendable pieces to allow for black to set up the pawns. Adding any additional white piece to the position will make it illegal.

n9531l1

No one has commented on KieferSmith's position at #7611. Is that because people thought it was too easy to bother with? (Black has made 12 pawn captures, but White is only missing 11 units.) Plenty of more obvious illegalities have shown up here, like a recent one with no black king on the board.

KieferSmith
KieferSmith

In order for a white pawn to "pass by" a black pawn or vice versa, it must make a capture to change files. But nothing has been captured.

Kyobir
EvinSung
Leither123
EvinSung wrote:
#7616

White must make two captures to set up the pawn structure. Black is missing two pieces, consisting of a pawn and a dark squared bishop. However, the dark squared bishop would not have been able to leave its home square and must have been captured there, so there are not enough captures for white to set up the pawns.

IM_practical-123

wow there is a lot of comments

EvinSung

got it from 5733 of spg

Leither123

Illegal check

MrCharlyy

Thanks nice workthumbup!!!

EvinSung
Java
Easy.
n9531l1
JavaScript781 wrote:
Easy.

Too easy.