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No.730, 731 |
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No.730, 731 by Stephen Emmerson – Nice light miniatures, showing Protean Chess. Enjoy solving! (JV)
A Hint (click to show/hide) for solvers for the both problems:
Definition:
Reverse Pawn (PP): Moves opposite to normal Pawn and promotes at the opposite end of board.
Royal piece: Piece that executes a function of the King on the board.
Protean Chess: Upon capturing, a unit takes the powers of the unit captured (Ks included). Units capturing pawns continue to move in the same direction as the pawn that was captured. (In Popeye capture takes precedence over promotion so. e.g. Ph7xSg8=S, not any of Q,R,B,S).
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No.730 Stephen Emmerson |
Solution: (click to show/hide) |
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white pg2
white royal pa2
black pe7
black royal sa1
ser-=11 (2+2) |
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No.731 Stephen Emmerson |
Solution: (click to show/hide) |
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white ph2
white royal pc5
black pf7c6 ppd2
black royal ba8
ser-=17 (2+4) |
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In fairy chess, there’s always another way to do any given theme … now Stephen had the idea of doing the 100 $ excelsiors in sequence rather than in parallel! With a suitable fairy condition, anything is possible. Quite amusing!
LOL, I dropped in here with a momentary fascination for reverse pawns, and I found the $150 theme ($50 per Springer). Surely, someone must be at work mustering $200. Expensive comedy!