My favorite Mate in 1 puzzle: It's really hard!
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Sep 16, 2025
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#3
Made it in different then normal color pieces to make it harder and it's also my theme lol!
Knight e3 captures pawn c4 checkmate.
Nice neon theme you have going on 
Sep 19, 2025
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#6
The king can’t move, so deliver check, but keep all squares around the king defended.
Nxc4#
The d5 pawn is pinned by a pinned piece. Cool!
Nxc4#
The d5 pawn is pinned by a pinned piece. Cool!
Oh my gosh
This is imposible
This is really hard
pfren wrote:
The initial position is illegal, so this is rated at zero points.
I am interested, can you clarify? The position doesn't appear to feature any pieces on illegal spaces, so I assume you mean the initial position can be proven to not be reachable with normal gameplay? I agree it looks like a mess that would be unlikely to happen in a real game 
just interested how it can be shown to be illegal.
queen to the horse on the right of the king
agermanbeer έγραψε:
pfren wrote:
The initial position is illegal, so this is rated at zero points.
I am interested, can you clarify? The position doesn't appear to feature any pieces on illegal spaces, so I assume you mean the initial position can be proven to not be reachable with normal gameplay? I agree it looks like a mess that would be unlikely to happen in a real game just interested how it can be shown to be illegal.
Quite simply, Black has 16 men and white doubled pawns at the c and f files, AKA at least two captures of black men- which means that this position cannot occur under ANY sequence of legal moves.
Oct 9, 2025
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#15
agermanbeer wrote:
Knight e3 captures pawn c4 checkmate.
Nice neon theme you have going on
Thank You, for the complement!
Oct 9, 2025
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#16
pfren wrote:
agermanbeer έγραψε:
pfren wrote:
The initial position is illegal, so this is rated at zero points.
I am interested, can you clarify? The position doesn't appear to feature any pieces on illegal spaces, so I assume you mean the initial position can be proven to not be reachable with normal gameplay? I agree it looks like a mess that would be unlikely to happen in a real game just interested how it can be shown to be illegal.
Quite simply, Black has 16 men and white doubled pawns at the c and f files, AKA at least two captures of black men- which means that this position cannot occur under ANY sequence of legal moves.
This was meant to be a fun puzzle not a game that could be achievable
Littlelilz_2025 έγραψε:
Couldn’t it also be rook to d5?
The initial position is 101% illegal, so I fail to see why an illegal move like 1.Rxd5+ (leaving the white king en prise) should not be allowed.
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