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CaptainBramble

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you get to this position in a chess game? all moves have to be legal, but certainly dont have to be good moves. The way i found to do it was quite tricky, it doesnt matter where all the other pieces are on the board. 

Thomas

htdavidht

This can't be done. I gonna call this a joke to make people waste time. Thanks.

Gm_andrewfeng

hard

m00nlight

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/shortest-proof-game-challenge?page=3

^ Post #58 ^

jakeryan150482

Here is the solution (spoiler alert).

 

htdavidht

It is not posible.

AndTheLittleOneSaid
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htdavidht

Anthelitle... you need to look at this deeper. 3 of the black powns are not in the position to sacrifice so they need to be driven to do so, that is the pown in a,b, and c. In order to have them in a useful position for sacrifice you need to sacrifice 9white pices. Thath is all the posible sacrifical pices for the whites. the problems is that blacks need to make one extra sacrifice to drive one of the powns, the one in the a colum, let me show you what I am talking about:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So as you see in the position you need to drive those 3 black powns to the empty squares for that you need 9 pices let me show you:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOtice you will need 2 sacrifices to drive the pown in the a colum to be able to be usefull, and we ready know there is not more material to sacrifice becouse all the black pices are ready needed  to move the 6 white powns. Therefore there is not enougth material to solve this.

htdavidht

and looking my second diagram Would need 2 more pices in e and f. So whites doesn't have enougth material to drive those powns neigther...

AndTheLittleOneSaid

See post #5.

htdavidht

and looking my second diagram Would need 2 more pices in e and f. So whites doesn't have enougth material to drive those powns neigther...

htdavidht

Ok was no counting with that pown upgrade... that change everything :P

AnastasiaStyles

This is the a file not the h file, but still, why is this still being debated when a proof has been posted?