This is the nonsense that im talking about. Thanks to catdogorb for making this 6 weeks ago. Shamelessly stolen from this thread: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/tricky-mate-in-1
WAht is the problem in this picture?
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Barefoot_Player wrote:
Checker, you keep insisting the board is somehow upside-down - lol!
The players may simply swap pieces before each game, without turning the board 180 degrees.
And pawns are not pieces. I never said anything about pawns. You did.
a pawn is not a piece huh. I guess thats whats wrong with this picture then
I think you all are overanalysing this way too much.
Some guy in India who doesn't know much about chess but sells chess stuff set up a board with some pieces. He held a peice like he was going to move it and another guy from the office who doesn't play chess at all took some photos for use on the website. When they got some pictures that looked kind of ok they packed it away without giving it another thought and went back to answering emails, making phone calls to carvers and dealing with customers. Nothing more.
May 26, 2018
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The White Bishop on b5 is checking Black's King, but since he could only have reached b5 by moving along the a4-e8 diagonal, he could NOT have legally gotten to b5 without White already being in check or Black's previous move being illegal and moving the King into check.
Otherwise, if Black is picking up the Knight from e5 to move it to c6, there's nothing wrong with the move. Note that if no one spots the illegal move(s) and legal moves are played for 10 moves or if the score keeping is so bad the TD/Arbiter and players can't reestablish the move order, the game continues on as if all moves were legal!