Easy retro example

In a retrograde puzzle, the focus is on the history of the game. There is a wide variety of possible stipulations. Some common ones are "Is the position legal?", "What was the last move(s)?", "Can White castle?" etc.


TOP

BOTTOM

Is the player of the white pieces sitting at the top or bottom of the board?

White sits at the top and just promoted to a bishop (the fool!).
Am I right?Am I right?

Just noticed - does this have double solution.

White can play a7-a8=B+ or white can b7xa8=B+

Originally posted by Romanticus
White sits at the top and just promoted to a bishop (the fool!).
Am I right?Am I right?

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Just noticed - does this have double solution.

White can play a7-a8=B+ or white can b7xa8=B+

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Yes, that's right.

Here's another one:

[fen]k7/2K5/8/8/8/8/7P/6B1 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White has the move, and is playing up the board.

What were the last 2 moves?

Yes - of course that is all you asked. Where was White sitting.

Think I've got this one -

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I've got one.

This position is NOT checkmate - what happened next?



Right I'm off to bed. g'night.

b4xc3.

LOL 😵

edit: am laughing cause of greenpawns puzzle,not pariah's solution(which is correct).Wanted to make that clear 🙂

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Yes - of course that is all you asked. Where was White sitting.

Think I've got this one -

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
I've got one.

This position is [b]NOT checkmate - what happened next?[/b]

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Originally posted by heinzkat
[hidden]The Black player received a PM from Chris?[/hidden]