[Retros] Checkmate?

[Bernd Gräfrath]

This "checkmate" idea sounds like an interesting challenge for composers!
The case where White's right to capture en passant stands in question
is old. But the more interesting case is where Black can only avoid to be
checkmate in the diagramme position by capturing en passant. Perhaps the
defending side should be given the benefit of the doubt then? A white
claim of checkmate should be successful against any conceivable black
defense!

Bernd


retros at janko.at schrieb am 02.02.04 22:04:21:

> -----Message d'origine-----

> De : retros-admin at janko.at [mailto:retros-admin at janko.at] De la part de

> Francois Labelle

> Objet : [Retros] At Home SPGs, and more

> 

> There's a funny problem I runned into: "checkmate" is a property of

> position, not diagram. Is it possible to come up with a diagram which is

> either checkmate or not checkmate depending on whether some specific en

> passant capture is possible or not? Now imagine that the checkmate is

> uniquely realizable, but the diagram is not! I don't think it happened in

> my search, but theoretically the diagrams that I'm counting may require

> the text "checkmate".

> 

> 

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