Pawn reaching eighth rank and not promoting is the idea of Jacques. You missed it.
I forgot the position ! White : Kc4 Pf4g4 Black : Kg3 Qh4 Re3 Be5h5 Sa6 Pc6f5h3
Dear Jacques, it seems that the nice idea of diag.1287 can be done in 12 pieces : S.L. h‡2 (3+9)…
Georgy is refering to this problem: http://www.yacpdb.org/#68127 Here also, the rook guards g2 in the diagram.
True. Pawns with more freedom would have been much more paradoxical.
Both pawns reach 8th rank during play, but cannot promote because black king will escape! Beautiful use of T&M as…
an even more specific try : 1.Bh3? cxb8=Q(Qc8) 2.Qa5 b8=Q+ 3.Bxc8->b7!
I wish to quote one of the problems of mine with Vlaicu Crisan published in The Problemist (Prob. F-3033,March 2013):…
"...Unfortunately, white pawns have no physical ability to promote..." not exact, for example 1.Qa3? cxb8=Q(Qa8) 2.Qc5 b8=Q+ does not work…
I suppose there could be a whole lot of positions to be discovered ending in the pattern of the mate…