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Is this position legal?
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RewanDemontay wrote:
#1652-Easily legal, just promote some black pawns for the white pawns to capture.
Look again...
Hint: Rook on b3 is checking Black King
Oof. Illegal then!
No, the Russian’s position is illegal. Translate what I said to him.
Only needs 14 captures.
Oof.
Trexler3241 έγραψε:
Only needs 14 captures.
Bad counting- they are 16, so it cannot happen in a game.
This was a good one! And nice job Trexler!
Here’s a much faster solution in 41 moves. May the race the fastest way began!
Legal#The black pawn is missing and the structure allowd for it to be promoted and moved to a1. The white e1 pawn promoted to a dark-squared bishop. How? Well it captured both black knights and the black queen to get to the c-file to promte-the only open file for it to do so on-and then captured the a1 black rook to promote to a dark square bishop. It then moved out. Thus this position is legal.
Just to clarify, the black pawn captured both white knights to march around the c-pawn.
I’ve managed to shave off 1 move so far.
I can’t seem to get it beyond 40 moves. Can anyone find faster or prove that 40.5 is optimal?
40.5: 39...Kf8 instead of 39...Ke8, and 40...Ke8.
That wouldn’t work. The white dark-squared bishop still needs to get to it’s sqaure.
# 1648- Нелегально, поскольку для получения 6 из них в h-файл требуется 15 захватов черных фигур белыми пешками. Это означает, что этой черной пешки не может быть. Пешка h2 также не может попасть на g3.