Help Requested: COVID-era outdoor dance/live chess chess study

Hi,

I was approached recently via a friend who has a dancer/artist that is thinking about choreographing an outdoor, large scale dance using chess as its theme. The key constraints are:

* Every dancer (piece) only gets to move once

* The game ends in checkmate

I started trying to solve this as a puzzle using the Fool's Mate, but the Ng1 ends up being a real problem: it has to move, but if it goes to h3, it can block the Qh4+ check on f2; if it goes to f3 it can take the queen. It seems like the only open for it is to go to e2, so that on ...Qh4+, it interposes on g3, but then the Queen moves twice (to take the knight on g3).

So: is there a sequence of moves that solves this study? 

If not, I'm thinking that maybe we relax the constraint of the queen moving twice (ie ...Qh4, then Qg3#).

Thank you in advance!!

Hi, I'm not sure I understand the puzzle rules: the pieces must move no more than once, but is it necessary that all the pieces move at least once?

Hi -- does this help?

1 All pieces must move once

2 No piece can move more than once

3 Game must end in checkmate

I made a few attempts, also trying on the opposite side of the chessboard using bishop to checkmate and using the queen to block other escape routes. Having to move all the pieces, however, there are almost always towers or queen that can interpose between the piece that is threatening check and the king, if they weren't around then the king would still have escape routes. I think the best solution is the first one you hypothesized with the Fool's Mate, but using a variant in which all the pieces move at least once except the prancing horse, which will remain stationary until the end of the game.

Yeah I saw that as well. I'm not sure there is a solution!