Timeline for An Easy Mate In 1
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| Aug 15, 2017 at 9:05 | history | edited | Mithical | edited tags | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 13:44 | comment | added | Trenin | @Reti43 Looking at the bottom right square is not sufficient to determine the direction each is moving. If you rotate the board 180 degrees, the bottom right square will still be white but the directions are the opposite. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | Sleafar | @Kevin White pawns are moving upwards, black pawns downwards. | |
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 12:28 | comment | added | Reti43 | @Kevin The board is numbered. But even if it was missing or you suspected it was lying, you could look at some specific square to know which side started at the bottom. For example, the bottom right square, or the queen's starting square, indicates the side. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 8:28 | comment | added | Kevin | Are white's pawns moving towards the top or the bottom of the grid? I'm not familiar with whether white or black is traditionally at the top of a chessboard, and the answer to my question affects my attempts to solve the puzzle. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 2:54 | comment | added | EMBLEM | I saw this puzzle in my chess club many years ago. It came with a claim that it was from the early days of chess, where the Bishops were actually alfils, which moved one or two squares and could jump over pieces. The solution was thus Bg1xe3#. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | Passage | To clarify Sleafar's comment for those less versed in chess, black starts in ranks 7 and 8, meaning that the black pawns are moving "down" the board in this image. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 16:29 | comment | added | Sleafar | @AntonyD'Andrea No, black can place a pawn between the queen and the king: 1. Qb2 c3. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 15:52 | comment | added | Antony D'Andrea | isnt it checkmate if he moves B1 to B2? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 8:54 | answer | added | Christopher Carl Heckman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 22:46 | comment | added | f'' | @RolazaroAzeveires A dot in the lower right square is commonly used to indicate whose move it is. | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 22:23 | comment | added | user10179 | Why does the Rook at h1 has a dot on it? Unless it is relevant for the solution (looks like not given the nice answers and already one accepted) the it probably should not be there. My bet would be that "dotted rooks" can fly; so R*h4++ | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 19:54 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 19:32 | history | edited | Sleafar | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 71 characters in body |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 19:30 | vote | accept | Sleafar | ||
| Apr 17, 2016 at 19:11 | answer | added | BaSzAt | timeline score: 19 | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 18:55 | answer | added | Reti43 | timeline score: 52 | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 18:49 | history | edited | Sleafar | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 18:29 | history | asked | Sleafar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |