Nxc3# board is shown from black's point of view therefore blacks pawns are going up the board and cannot capture
Tricky mate in 1
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MSURYA8 wrote:
This isn't possible, the king and queen are placed in the wrong positions
King and queen are in the exact right position, and the puzzle follows the exact rules of chess. Furthermore, this is a legal position 
You've got all the pieces to solving this trick question (which fieldh1 did by the way) but you fail to fit them all together.
Illegal by my calculations. Too many captures needed to get to such a position and too many pieces on the board.
This position *might* (don't trust me) be legal:
But again, don't trust me. Too bad all of the good retro solvers are gone... (and I'm too lazy to find a way)
The White King and Queen give me a problem. As you can see I can nearly get the position.
Of course what we have is the pawns all on the 7th ranks and not as in my sample the second rank.
EndgameStudier wrote:
The Board is upside down.
Good job!
farmer2013 wrote:
Illegal by my calculations. Too many captures needed to get to such a position and too many pieces on the board.
This position *might* (don't trust me) be legal:
But again, don't trust me. Too bad all of the good retro solvers are gone... (and I'm too lazy to find a way)
7 captures of the black pieces and 2 captures of the white pieces is more than enough to make this position legal. We can let the white pawns cross the black ones with 6 captures already(Remember: Provided they capture behind the pawn on the respective file, there is only 1 capture needed So the white h-pawn needs to capture behind the black g-pawn and then the g-pawn doesn't need any captures anymore to go to it's intended spot), Rest is child's play
catdogorb wrote:
Oh, I see, there are too many captures required. Pawns can't get behind each other like that without captures being made.
See my comment above
SilverByte wrote:
farmer2013 wrote:
Illegal by my calculations. Too many captures needed to get to such a position and too many pieces on the board.
This position *might* (don't trust me) be legal:
But again, don't trust me. Too bad all of the good retro solvers are gone... (and I'm too lazy to find a way)
7 captures of the black pieces and 2 captures of the white pieces is more than enough to make this position legal. We can let the white pawns cross the black ones with 6 captures already(Remember: Provided they capture behind the pawn on the respective file, there is only 1 capture needed So the white h-pawn needs to capture behind the black g-pawn and then the g-pawn doesn't need any captures anymore to go to it's intended spot), Rest is child's play
Prove it. Post the moves.
catdogorb wrote:
It's far from pretty, just me taking it slow and easy, but here's an example
Thanks for saving me the effort, and nice one
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Solution, white to move (Mate in 31)
1. Ne4 2. g7g6 3. f2f4 4. d8e8 5. g5h7 6. f6h7 7. e1h4 8. g8g7 9. h4h7 10. g7f6 11. h7h3 12. f6g7 13. h3h6 14. g7f6 15. e2e4 16. d7d6 17. f1c4 18. e8c8 19. h6g5 20. f6g7 21. c4f7 22. c8c2 23. d1c2 24. f8c8 25. c2b3 26. c8c3 27. b2c3 28. e7e6 29. a1a8 30. d6e5 31. g5g6
Checkmate!
The king and queen are in the wrong positions
catdogorb wrote:
Birdlegend wrote:
I only look at the first post
We can tell.
This is what I think you probably meant though I must admit I chuckled. Actually I lied I did more than chuckle, I found that hilarious for some reason
lol it took me ages to see it (i swear i didn't look at the comments.) I realised the board was flipped and i almost died at my failing to see it!
HINT