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Subj:
Impossible Position?
Date:
Date: 9/02/2002 7:49:02
AM Mountain Daylight Time
From: Squarf
To:
service@chess-poster.com
I am told that it
is not possible for such a position to
occur:
Black King on H-8
White Queen on G-8
White Knight onG-6
-- Checkmate.
Why? How? What?
I look at it... doodle around with
pieces and can come up with it. What
don't I understand? Why,
from a play point of view is it
impossible?
Can you enlighten me?
Thanks!
-Squarf
chess-poster.com
Hello -Squarf,
Chess has rules and if not followed, it is not
Chess.
They will never permit such position on the board, thus, it is an
impossible position.
In order to arrive to any Chess
position, it has to be
in a legal way. This set up problem
(graphic) is possible only if
you take the pieces manually and place them in
the board, but can never be
reached by making legal moves.
Now, if it is black's turn, black
King simple takes the
Queen and
that is the end of the problem but how could
the black King
be attacked twice in one move with two enemy pieces?
This is possible only with any discovery Check (i.e. with a
Knight + Queen, Knight + Bishop, etc.).
There is no answer to an illegal set up Chess
problem.
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