Shortest-proof-game challenge

lol

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You could skip the last four moves and still put 1/2-1/2 above the board simply by specifying a draw result in the game details. You can make the result show as whatever you want. You can set up a simple checkmate for White and put 0-1 above the board. The point is, when you are creating a proof game, you should ignore what's above the board. If the composer wants to require a drawn position, he has to say so in the problem stipulation.

thats what i was trying to say but then i just waited for you to correct him

No one has posted a shorter game for #478 than my 66-move game, or any length game for that matter. Maybe it's too hard. So I'll give you an easy one.

The illegal position at #4865 in the Illegal Position thread is shown here with Black's b7 pawn removed. Now that the position is legal, how short a proof game can you find for it?

basically just need to make the pawn grab faster

also the position with the b pawns and with whites d3 pawn on e3

Wasn't that easy? Now maybe you're ready to give #478 a try.

#494
The double knight promotion is splendid.
Here is a shorter proof

Your game is splendid! I hope Rewan will be inspired to try to shorten it.

Now here is another challenge. It's the same position, but with a white queen at e2 instead of a black knight.

im NOT skilled enough

ok

I looked at tygxc's #568 hoping to improve, and could only get one move shorter. If tygxc and Rewan want to improve, they'll have to find a game shorter than 63 moves. I'll give my game, which might provide some improvement ideas.

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First quick attempt, ready to be shortened.

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Here's an improvement from 73.5 moves to 66.5 moves. I'll let someone else shorten it more.