Is this position legal?

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Chessgrandmaster2001

Wow, we have some interesting positions.

Chessgrandmaster2001

Wow, we have some interesting positions.

ChessSmart_82

FancyKnight

legal...

ChessSmart_82

This one?

niranjan1237

This one is legal. Knight came and cuted off everything

Justified08

is this one?

Justified08

or this one?

Justified08

this one is illegal, but why?

john4000

Black king is checked, so it must have been white's move previously. But the only square the bishop could have come from is d6, which would have meant black was checked the previous move too, without escaping = illegal.

Justified08

yes!

Justified08

is it?

A_G_A

The position above is illegal because the only way either side could get more than one pawns on a file is if the pawn made a capture, and each side has all of its pieces.

Remellion

#159 illegal, black needs at least 15 captures.

#160 legal, 8 pieces missing and 8 captures needed for the pawns to cross.

Irontiger

Is this legal ? And what about if b5 is moved to b6 ?

saisree

no.....two dark squared bishops....and no.  Laughing

TheMushroomDealer

That position is legal but with pawn on b6 it is inpossible because the white's  bishop has no way to go to a1

TheMushroomDealer

because b6-pawn prevents it's route b8-a7-d4-a1 

KlomasThein
saisree schreef:

no.....two dark squared bishops....and no. 

I don't agree. 

VULPES_VULPES

Here's my contribution!