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Also cool: white to move and NOT mate http://www.chess.com/blog/AaronGo/white-to-move-and-not-mate http://www.chess.com/blog/AaronGo/white-to-move-and-not-mate
by Max_Horstmann 11y ago
Also cool: white to move and NOT mate
http://www.chess.com/blog/AaronGo/white-to-move-and-not-mate http://www.chess.com/blog/AaronGo/white-to-move-and-not-mate
- jerf 11y agoWould someone like to post a ROT13 of the solution to that, if they have it?
- nikbackm 11y agozbir gur gbjre
- simcop2387 11y agoQbrfa'g gung serr gur ovfubc gb zngr gur xvat? Gur bayl zbirf V pna frr gung jbhyqa'g qb vg ner gb zbir gur juvgr xvat.
- shadefinale 11y agoJuvgr xvat pna'g zbir, oybpxrq ol oynpx ebbx naq ovfubc Vs lbh zbir juvgr ebbx gb p6, gur oynpx xvat vf gura va purpx. Ubjrire, oynpx pna pncgher gur ovfubc gb ab ybatre or va purpx.
- manveru 11y agoPna'g lbh zbir gur cnja ng o2 be u2 ol whzcvat bire gur cvrprf va sebag bs gurz fvapr vg'q or gurve svefg zbir? Gur ortvaare ehyrf ba gur fvgr lbh yvaxrq qba'g zragvba jurgure guvf vf n yrtny zbir be abg, fb V'z abg fher.
- Roodgorf 11y agoExcept that there aren't any legal moves for the white king, he's caught between the black square bishop and rook on 7th rank.
- rectang 11y agoEbbx gb P fvk Zbir gur Ebbx gb n fcbg jurer vg eryrnfrf gur cva ba gur bccbaragf Ebbx, juvpu pna gura pncgher gur ovfubc juvpu unf perngrq gur qvfpbirerq purpx.
- jerf 11y agoThank you.
- doomrobo 11y agoIs a castle legal in this case?
- dalke 11y agoNo. Castling can only occur if the king has not moved. By convention, white's pieces start at the bottom of the depicted board - the first row. In this puzzle, the king is in the last row, which means it has moved at least 7 steps.
- scrumper 11y agoI can't figure it out but I'm positive that 12 year old me would have lost from this position. Fools mate in an inter-school tournament, the only player on my team to lose his game and thus the only one who didn't get ice cream on the drive home. Still hurts. EDIT: actually it isn't that hard! I really could cock it up from that position.
- vidar 11y agoNot giving icecream to a 12 year old because he lost a game is just outright cruel. :(
- DanBC 11y agoIt certainly helps to set a pattern of unhealthy eating. "You loser! Go eat an apple. Us winners are enjoying this delicious ice-cream".
- Scarblac 11y agoIn Dutch high level youth chess it's usual for there to be a target score for the entire team based on the strength of the opposition that day (say the goal of that day is to score at least 6/10), and then _the entire team_ gets icecream or not depending.
- scrumper 11y agoNah, I was 12. That's old enough to learn about failure in a fairly direct way. It was a good lesson and I'm glad my teacher stuck to it/ Sure, if I'd put up a good fight and lost because he was better, perhaps I'd be a bit sadder, but I really failed. (I still remember it clearly: I was distracted by my opponent's disgusting acne. I also had a turns-out-justified case of impostor syndrome about my place on the team).
- bduerst 11y agoThat was cool - are there any more of these? Reminds me of Desktop Dungeons for some reason.
- Avshalom 11y agoChess problems are a whole field of puzzles. I don't often see ones that are quite as cool as that but there are absolutely tons of them out there.
- redindian75 11y agoSPOILER: Move WhiteRook (G6>C6) thereby giving a check to black King with Knight at (H7). It also blocks WhiteKnight (A8)'s view of the Black King thereby freeing the BlackRook(B7>H7) to kill the WhiteKnight at H7
- fferen 11y agoIt's a bishop, not knight.
- redindian75 11y agoSorry mistyped
- 78666cdc 11y agoForfeit?