Royal Dynasty: Each side can have one or more kings. Pawns may promote to king. When a side has one king, that king is royal and is subject to checks and mate. When a side has more than one king, none are royal, and the side cannot be in check or mate. Non-royal kings have the same movement as a king; but, a side may only castle with an unmoved king when it has no other king.
No.1226Stephen Emmerson U.K. original – 15.06.2017
My head went into circles at first, but later saw Stephen’s clever manouvre. White by 5.e:f8=K parries the check(because there are 2 WK’s) and checks Black.
Black similarly parries the check by d:c1=K. Rest is easy to follow.
Now it is upto experts to say if Schnoebelen Kings
has been done before?
seetharaman
June 16, 2017 22:09
Very nice. I suppose the Schnoebelen Kings will be possible ony with this fairy condition. Excellent use of the condition.
Stephen Emmerson
June 17, 2017 00:09
Bernd Gräfrath has shown a Schnoebelen King before in my column (The Problemist, Nov. 2014; solution May 2015) using Losing Chess. I might hope (but don’t know) if mine is the first instance of 2 such kings, but the condition makes it quite easy.
dupont
June 17, 2017 00:48
Problem 760 was an attempt to show 4 Schnoebelen Kings.
Stephen Emmerson
June 17, 2017 01:10
Ah well! It looks like you achieved two at least (Popeye [4.63,4.77] confirms it sound if after 9.5 moves in your sequence Black plays 10…Rxg8). I identified some improvements to the optimisation in Popeye which helped me test this problem; I’ll have a look to see what can be done in Extinction chess. Were the bugs you discovered just in PGs, as far as you can tell?
dupont
June 17, 2017 01:55
What I remember is that in version 4.69 I discovered several bugs (not only in Extinction chess, nor PGs) even with correct problems for version 4.63. I reported this fact to Thomas, who fixed it for version 4.75.
Concerning pb 760 I tried to make it sound after Joost’s cook, but failed… Would be great if you could succeed!
Grafath’s problem also has an interesting motive for King promotion, perhaps more subtle than Extinction chess or Royal Dynasty.
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P.G.9.5 Losing Chess
There’s a brilliant double king Ceriani-Frolkin by Michel Caillaud: P1068520. I’m fairly certain Michel published a correction, but I can’t find it at the moment.
Geoff Foster
June 22, 2017 02:13
Correction was published p.151, Probleemblad (IX 2011).
My head went into circles at first, but later saw Stephen’s clever manouvre. White by 5.e:f8=K parries the check(because there are 2 WK’s) and checks Black.
Black similarly parries the check by d:c1=K. Rest is easy to follow.
Now it is upto experts to say if Schnoebelen Kings
has been done before?
Very nice. I suppose the Schnoebelen Kings will be possible ony with this fairy condition. Excellent use of the condition.
Bernd Gräfrath has shown a Schnoebelen King before in my column (The Problemist, Nov. 2014; solution May 2015) using Losing Chess. I might hope (but don’t know) if mine is the first instance of 2 such kings, but the condition makes it quite easy.
Problem 760 was an attempt to show 4 Schnoebelen Kings.
Ah well! It looks like you achieved two at least (Popeye [4.63,4.77] confirms it sound if after 9.5 moves in your sequence Black plays 10…Rxg8). I identified some improvements to the optimisation in Popeye which helped me test this problem; I’ll have a look to see what can be done in Extinction chess. Were the bugs you discovered just in PGs, as far as you can tell?
What I remember is that in version 4.69 I discovered several bugs (not only in Extinction chess, nor PGs) even with correct problems for version 4.63. I reported this fact to Thomas, who fixed it for version 4.75.
Concerning pb 760 I tried to make it sound after Joost’s cook, but failed… Would be great if you could succeed!
Kindly, Dupont, can you show me the pb 760?
760 here: https://juliasfairies.com//?s=760.
Grafath’s problem also has an interesting motive for King promotion, perhaps more subtle than Extinction chess or Royal Dynasty.
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P.G.9.5 Losing Chess
Solutioin:
1.a3 b5 2.c4 b5*c4 3.Qb3 c4*b3 4.Ra2 b3*a2 5.d3 a2*b1=K 6.Bh6 g7*h6 7.b4 h5 8.Sg1-f3 Sh6 9.Sd2 h4 10.Sd2*b1 dia
The earliest King-Schnoebelen is probably http://pdb.dieschwalbe.de/search.jsp?expression=PROBID='P1084841‘
There’s a brilliant double king Ceriani-Frolkin by Michel Caillaud: P1068520. I’m fairly certain Michel published a correction, but I can’t find it at the moment.
Correction was published p.151, Probleemblad (IX 2011).
Michel Caillaud
1 Place, Nunspeet TT 2005 (v)
rsbqkb2/pppp2p1/6s1/1PSPp3/PRK5/1B2P3/1P1P4/Q1B1R1S1
PG 29.0
Losing Chess
1.c4 f5 2.g4 fxg4 3.Qc2 h5 4.e4 h4 5.Se2 Rh5 6.Sec3 Rb5 7.cxb5 e5 8.Bc4 Se7 9.Ke2 Sg6 10.Re1 Ke7 11.h3 gxh3 12.Kd3 h2 13.Re2 h1=K 14.a4 Kh2 15.Ra3 Kh3 16.Rb3 Kg4 17.Rb4 h3 18.Bb3 h2 19.Kc4 h1=K 20.Re1 Kh2 21.Se2 Kg5 22.Sbc3 Kgf6 23.Qb1 Kfe6 24.Qa1 Kd5 25.exd5 Kh3 26.Se4 Kg4 27.Sg1 Kf4 28.Sc5 Ke3 29.fxe3 Ke8