What an interesing topic. Now tracking!
Stalemate
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those stalemates were all done on april fools day at some silly tournament foolish enough to play on such a fine day.
the best i could come up with
insertnamehere99 wrote:
the best i could come up with
What is the goal of this position?
10 moves? This is the fastest I thought of by myself:
EDIT: No, it is not a stalemate. I realized that white can play g3 or g4 followed by Bb2.
OK, here's a funny stalemate:
And another one:
This took a LOT of time.
insertnamehere99 wrote:
not a stalemate,just a draw because of 3 move repitition
The criteria for draw by repetition is triple repetition of position not move. So in the game given, the draw is claimable after move 4.
I've just realized that I am an idiot.
sasha2 wrote:
Checkmate in 1 move- for white and black.
I can't see any for black but can for white.
_Chess_Boy_ wrote:
sasha2 wrote:
Checkmate in 1 move- for white and black.
I can't see any for black but can for white.
Black can play Nxb6#, but it's not forced.
SirDavid wrote:
I've just realized that I am an idiot.
. . .
Oh yeah. Somebody should have realized this long ago.
I thought of it, but I didn't realize that Black could have had a last move.
pompom, that is, in fact, my favorite stalemate. It's not exactly on topic, but funny nonetheless.
This topic is very interesting
Mate in 1 for white and black. There are different options to mate.
pompom wrote:
Mate in 1 for white and black. There are different options to mate.
Interesting idea. Obviously there are plenty of similar variations on that theme. For example, the following position satisfies the conditions in the first post.
Here's another one that I came up with.
And the fastest double stalemate (getting closer to the creative theme first started in this posting) -
By Minerva:
Wow, 18 moves! That's genius. Do you know if this is the fastest double stalemate possible, or just the fastest yet discovered?
Checkmate in 1 move- for white and black.
But black has other moves than checkmate. He could move his knight elsewhere and not checkmate white in one. The idea was to create a position for which the only legal move was checkmate whether white or black to move.