At rather low cost, the author could obtain a better checkmate : 8/3PP3/4P3/1P1Pq1P1/K2P1b2/p1p2pRb/rpP5/k2BB3 (21 instead of 20) also the reason…
On No.1545 (IT)
Of course, speaking strictly from an economical viewpoint, a wBf4 will do too.
On No.1547 (DT)
The avoidance of the capture of the bPf3 is a wonderful refinement.
On No.1545 (IT)
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Alphabetic Chess was invented by Roméo Bédoni. His earliest ABC problem i WinChloe…
On Fairy elements: the statistics
PWC (or Circe Echange) seems to have been invented by Umberto Castellari in 1975.
On Fairy elements: the statistics
... and Köko was invented by Heinz Zander, who lived in Cologne (Köln), the name is short for Kölner Kontaktschach.…
On Fairy elements: the statistics
AntiCirce was invented by Fernand Calvet; that's why have have a "type Calvet". The earliest example in WinChloe is from…
On Fairy elements: the statistics
From 'Les pièces neutres': C'est en 1912 que T.R. DAWSON inventa et présenta, pour la première fois, les NEUTRAL MEN…
On Fairy elements: the statistics
Perhaps not 800, but quite a few there are ... I think Alphabetic Chess (ABC) and Disparate are the only…
On Fairy elements: the statistics
I think much of that information can be found in A Guide to Fairy Chess (Dickins) and Sproekjesschaak (Smulders), but…
On Fairy elements: the statistics