Once upon a time there was the 5th TT CCM dedicated to fairy problems with cyclic change of defence motifs:…
That's right, I meant the basic idea of parrying double check by very precisely determined Take&Make capture. The other elements…
This instantly reminded me of Petko Petkov's 4th Prize in StrateGems 2011 tourney (judged by me, that is why I…
Besides two solutions there is also set play with the third sacrifice, it is given above the diagram.
Removing piece AG from the Popeye is mentioned in the Popeye 4.63 Release notes (see section Other changes down on…
Yes, Marine Knight seems unwieldy to be the main the only fairy piece in a problem often, but it can…
Thanks for bare bone example! Intuitively, for me this is wrong, as I understand neutrals and paralysis. Well, any rule…
One-way paralysis seems to be forbidden in Popeye Isardam too. Let's try the following position: Stipulation h=1 White Ga8 Rh4…
It is not possible to say that with White to move all neutral pieces act as white. If this was…
All right, but then also the last move is already illegal as it leads to mutual attack of white and…