Originally posted by greenpawn34 Where on earth do you begin?
I'm glad you asked.
Begin by searching for possible stalemate positions. There are only a few possibilities, because white only has one move and thus can only capture one piece. Pretty much ALL the pieces must be involved in the stalemate somehow.
Once you have identified a stalemate position, count moves and see if you can set it up within the allotted 16 moves.
Originally posted by tomtom232 If you pay attention you'll notice that the first move can't be with the b pawn or the h pawn because that would mean there are cooks (unless they are the only chess man moved), the f pawn can't go first because it checks and the other two pawns are pinned so the first move must be a king move or one pawn moving sixteen times which is really not feasable.
However, this problem is not computer tested, so there is a possibility of cooks.
After 1.bxa1=B 2.Bxe5 3.a1=B 4.Bad4 5.c3 6.c2 7.c1=B 8.Bcf4 9.g3 10.g2 11.g1=B 12.Rg2 13.Rh2 14.Rh1 15.h2 16.f2+, white plays Ke2 ending with this stalemate position:
Originally posted by MrPhil And as we know, too many cooks spoil almost anything.
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What does the term cook mean in the context of a chess problem?
Originally posted by Mephisto2 This is the starting position:
[fen]6r1/8/4Q3/4P3/R1p1k1pR/5p1p/pp6/N3KB2 b - - 0 1[/fen]
After 1.bxa1=B 2.Bxe5 3.a1=B 4.Bad4 5.c3 6.c2 7.c1=B 8.Bcf4 9.g3 10.g2 11.g1=B 12.Rg2 13.Rh2 14.Rh1 15.h2 16.f2+, white plays Ke2 ending with this stalemate position:
[fen]8/8/4Q3/4b3/R2bkb1R/8/4Kp1p/5Bbr b - - 0 17[/fen]
king moves to e1 and back fourteen moves while the king is on e1 the pawn promotes to a rook then moves to f2. once king is back the rook moves to a2 and 1.Nb3 is mate.
04 Mar '10 01:41
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