Author: Paul
Date: 16:10:34 01/17/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 19:05:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 17, 2001 at 18:59:19, Vincent Vega wrote: > >>On January 17, 2001 at 17:11:45, leonid wrote: >> >>>Hi! >>> >>>Position below contain mate. If you can find shortest mate that 11 moves (my >>>selective search can't find here below 11 and frute force search is too time >>>expensive), please say what you found. >>> >>>3k4/2bqb3/2qnq3/2nrn3/1Qqnq3/NBNq4/PPP2pR1/KB4R1 black to go. >>> >>>Leonid. >> >>This position is illegal. > >All right, leonid. You heard the man. You're under arrest! >;-) > >Since neither king is in check, I am curious why the position is not to be found >in the game of check. It seems to add up OK to me. For black there are 5 Queens, 1 Bishop and 2 Knights extra. That's possible by 8 promo's ... but there's still a black pawn? But why spoil the fun, it's a nice position :) Paul
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