Author: Angrim
Date: 12:51:09 05/04/01
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On May 04, 2001 at 15:14:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 04, 2001 at 14:55:43, Paul wrote: > >>On May 04, 2001 at 14:32:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >Well, I'm not sure what I thought was wrong before. I did the arithmetic and >the piece counts add up as conceivable. Something still looks wrong to me, but >I can't put my finger on it. > >However, I think it is me who needs the hand-towel. >;-) Only one piece is missing(a black bishop), so no pawns were captured. Yet 16 pawns were converted. Invariably it takes at least one piece capture to allow a pair of pawns to pass each other if no pawns are to be sacrificed. So I would conclude that this is an impossible position to reach from the standard starting position. Angrim
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