Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:40:22 02/03/01
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On February 03, 2001 at 09:12:26, Pete Melissakis wrote: >I had a position exactly like this in one of my games just last week. >Don't remember how it turned out. > >Pete .. Ô¿Ô What is the name of the game that you played? The position is illegal so it is impossible that you played chess. Ô¿Ô The reason that I say that the position is illegal is the fact that black played 3 captured in the game when white did not capture. Black can get at most 6 passed pawns by 3 captures but black promoted 8 pawns to 4 bishops,2 rooks and 2 queens. Conclusion:this position cannot be obtained from the initial position in a chess game. The reason that black can create at most 6 black passed pawn by 3 captures: I define a good pawn as a passed pawn or a pawn that in the same file as another pawn. Every passed pawn is a good pawn so it is enough to prove that black can generate at most 6 good black pawns by 3 captures. Black can get at most 2 good black pawns by every capture because if the capture is by a piece at most one good black pawn is created and if the capture is by a pawn at most 2 good black pawns are created if the capture leads to 2 pawns at the same file. Uri
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