| No.375 Julia Vysotska (Latvia) |
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No.375 by Julia Vysotska – One and the same square is touched in each half-move! Looks like a toy, but also has a rich content not easy to comment. Fortunately finished on the night before my birthday! (JV)
Definitions:
Locust (L): moves on Q-lines but only by capturing an enemy unit, arriving on the square immediately beyond that unit, which must be vacant.
Rook-Locust (LR): Moves like Locust, but on Rook-lines only.
Bishop-Locust (LB): Moves like Locust, but on Bishop-lines only.
Take & Make: Having captured, a unit must immediately, as part of its move, play a non-capturing move in imitation of the captured unit from the capture-square. If no such move is available, the capture is illegal. Promotion by capture occurs only when a pawn arrives on the promotion rank as the result of a take&make move. Checks are as in normal chess: after the notional capture of the checked K, the checking unit does not move away from the K’s square.
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No.375 Julia Vysotska
Latvia
original-15.09.2013
 h#2 2 solutions (5+7)
Take&Make Bishop locust d8 Rook locust h6 Solutions: (click to show/hide)
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Very nice double-check mates. The composer found a clever way to turn a h#1.5 into a h#2, by adding the black pawns on d4 and f3!
Funny and clever !
Thank you! Geoff is right – it was funny h#1,5 in the beginning, found is some minutes… and it was not easy to come to h#2 – the published setting took me several days.
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