Remellion wrote:
Eeyores: Holy heck that's complicated, but very familiar somehow.
It's one of my compositions from an older thread. :)
Is this position legal?
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BigDoggProblem wrote:
Remellion wrote:
Eeyores: Holy heck that's complicated, but very familiar somehow.
It's one of my compositions from an older thread. :)
Nice. I never claimed authorship. I saw it in another site.
Eeyores wrote:
BigDoggProblem wrote:
Remellion wrote:
Eeyores: Holy heck that's complicated, but very familiar somehow.
It's one of my compositions from an older thread. :)
Nice. I never claimed authorship. I saw it in another site.
I didn't say you did. I was just explaining to Remellion why the position seemed familiar.
Remellion wrote:
So I was fooling around some, and now my earlier reboot has a twin. Again, can white castle?
A wicked twin! Solution PM'ed.
BigDoggProblem wrote:
Remellion wrote:
So I was fooling around some, and now my earlier reboot has a twin. Again, can white castle?
A wicked twin! Solution PM'ed.
Solved, I'm ashamed to admit how much time I spent with this one. Good puzzle.
Glad to see it was a "good twin, evil twin". As usual BigDoggProblem is correct with the unlocking (and again with your previously-composed double ep, it was from a thread with shoopi if I'm remembering correctly.) White can castle, and the easiest way to answer was probably to immediately unlock the lower left cage. Not a true CF, but the closest I've come.
Also, I might not have been able to solve my own puzzle if I weren't composing it. "A fool can ask a question a sage can't answer." :P
Dang that twin.
Meanwhile, here's a rather easy one.
chaotic_iak wrote:
Dang that twin.
Meanwhile, here's a rather easy one.
Hmm, this part seems tough to unlock, given that black has all 8 pawns and could not have promoted a B on b1.
I'd have thought it's simply illegal? White retracts Pe7xf8=R+, and either a) white retracts 2 more captures (3 in total) to return it to e2, while black is missing only 2 men total, or b) black retracts the cross-capturing Pd7xe6, which means the light-squared bishop died on c8 and its impossible ghost is on a2.
@Remillion: It's possible that the bishop on a2 gets back home before d7xe6. Just retract a capturing move in order to give White retro-moves, and figure out how to unlock the southwest cage...
The position is impossible due to the White king's cage, as pointed by BigDoggProblem. And yes, I need to make the cage easier to unlock (should have removed one pawn and added one piece there), since my intention is exactly Remillion's: the pawn cross-captured d7xe6 and e7xd6 in order to give White's e-pawn space to retract back to e2.
Yes.
b6! wins
all seem to be trivially legal
aceeye74 wrote:
show some moves!
Mashanator and falcogrine are right. They are all so easy that no moves need be shown.
Not all are trivial. #366, last move is Bxg7 (not Bg7). #367, the c/e/g pawns are originally from b/d/f, making one capture of the corresponding pawns. Trivial for an experienced solver, but not quite for a beginner.
chaotic_iak wrote:
Not all are trivial. #366, last move is Bxg7 (not Bg7). #367, the c/e/g pawns are originally from b/d/f, making one capture of the corresponding pawns. Trivial for an experienced solver, but not quite for a beginner.
Meh, they don't need much experience to get these. The guy's just making diagrams and hoping they turn out to be good puzzles.
As usual, that doesn't work.
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