5 captures/124 moves, but Madrasi is here a rather mechanical tool: White Ka7 Rf7 Qb1 Black Qb7 Rc7 Ba6 Rc6…
Why so many captures? Just a simpler scheme (after Georgy): White Qa7 Kf5 Rg3 Black Be8 Qg7 Pa6 Sc6 Rg6…
The author's concept can be save by little shifting of pieces: [img]http://www.yacpdb.org/xfen/?B4k2/q7/K7/8/8/8/5Q2/7b[/img] ser-zb813 Madrasi (3+3) B4k2/q7/K7/8/8/8/5Q2/7b 1.Kb5 2.Kc4 3.Kd3 4.Ke2…
Very nice problem, by the way!
> Breton condition is not implemented in Popeye Breton will be supported by Popeye 4.81
Without a pawn. [img]http://www.yacpdb.org/xfen/?3k4/8/K7/8/8/8/8/6bb[/img] ser-zb813 1.Kb5 2.Kc4 3.Kd3 4.Ke2 5.Kf1 6.Kхg1 7.Kf2 8.Ke3 9.Kd4 10.Kc5 11.Kb6 12.Ka7 13.Kb8 z
The "orthodox" length record for this stipulation with 6 units is 49 moves: http://pdb.dieschwalbe.de/search.jsp?expression=PROBID='P1113601'. If you want it to be…
So basically this? BeginProblem Stipulation ser-za213 Pieces black Bh8 Pf7f5e4d3c2g6 white Kc1 EndProblem 1.Kc1-d2 2.Kd2-e3 3.Ke3-f4 4.Kf4-g5 5.Kg5-h6 6.Kh6-h7 7.Kh7-g8…
Seems that was not correctly checked as Popeye also confirms the cooks.
so, why not 5.Kxf2 and 6.Bb8 ?