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No.899 (SE)

No.899 
Stephen Emmerson (England)

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No.899 by Stephen Emmerson – Relegation Chess in a play of two Knights! (JV)


Definition:

Relegation Chess: In addition to promotion of pawns to pieces, pieces (Q,R,B,S) arriving back on their pawns’ home rank are “relegated” – changed back to pawns. (OR: If a piece (not King or Pawns) reaches the Pawns’ starting rank of the same side, it changes to a pawn).


No.899 Stephen Emmerson
England

original – 20.09.2015

Solution: (click to show/hide)

White Kc1 Bf7 Sh8 Pd5 Black Kb3 Bb4 Sa4 Sf1

h#3.5                                     (4+4)
Relegation Chess


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Stephen Emmerson
Stephen Emmerson
September 21, 2015 08:30

No cookstoppers! I had versions in H#4 (BS->g1; 1.Sh3 etc.) and H#3 (WS->e8) which only need Ps to block/guard a4,b4; but both required an extra wP/bP to prevent cooks.

Kjell Widlert
Kjell Widlert
September 21, 2015 11:46

A witty idea! Instead of pawns walking all the way from the starting position to the promotion rank to become knights, as in the 100$ theme, we have knights walking all the way from the promotion rank to the starting position to turn back into pawns!

AGOSTINI Valerio
AGOSTINI Valerio
September 22, 2015 12:33

Anti-100$ theme??

seetharaman
seetharaman
September 22, 2015 13:46

hm…. 100$ theme reversal? 🙂

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