What would be her value, points wise?
What strategies would change?
What other weird things may happen? (For instance, she'd be able to checkmate a king against the side or back of the board with no other pieces).
Apologies, but this idea came to me while attempting to sleep last night and I had to see what others thought.
I would have lost about £500 over the past 30 years.
When coaching kids if any of them are Queen happy and
try to win with games just by moving their Queen
I show them a position like this.
and offer them £5.00 if they can mate that King.
They soon get the idea that even the mighty Queen needs help.
This Quight or Kneen (there is a chess variant that has such a piece)
I'd lose as this checkmate.
This is a new stalemate pattern.
Originally posted by hagwasNo more fool's mate :'(
What would be her value, points wise?
What strategies would change?
What other weird things may happen? (For instance, she'd be able to checkmate a king against the side or back of the board with no other pieces).
Apologies, but this idea came to me while attempting to sleep last night and I had to see what others thought.
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toet.
Originally posted by greenpawn34The position was:
That's the one I was looking for.
OK SG. explain this.
[fen]2b5/Bk6/pP1P4/8/7p/6bK/6B1/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]
What happened to get this and how can one argue this is legal?
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| 1. | Bg2 | d5 |
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White claimed that en passant was specifically invented to prevent players from turning a loss into a win by using a two-step pawn advance. He argues that the pawn never actually reaches d5, and thus his checkmate was never nullified by black. Of course, he loses the argument 😵
Originally posted by USArmyParatrooperOf course, because the inventor of chess came up with the moves of the pieces by dividing control of a 5x5 square amongst the pieces.
Have you guys thought about how many squares it would attack at once? Put the queen in the center and it's almost attacking the entire board.
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The Queen used to be the Counselor, moving only one diagonal square at a time.
The Bishop used to be the Alfil, jumping only two diagonal squares at a time.
The Knight got the 'leftover' squares.
The Rook's move has not changed either.
So, this new Q+N piece, being a combination of all of these four, naturally controls the whole 5x5 grid, with Q extensions.
Originally posted by greenpawn34Cross words?
Correct SG.
I saw it once as this.
[fen]1bb5/1k1p4/pP6/P1P3p1/7p/7K/6B1/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]
And there quite a debate about it.
Mind you chess players will argue about anything.
I was on a train coming back from a Congress in Glasgow and quite a
heated argument broke out amongst the players over a crossword clue.
7 chess players on a train.
One decides to do a crossword puzzle and nobody is interested.
Suddenly someone suggest we all do one clue each and pass it
to the player sitting next to us.
AH. A Competition. All the players are now interested.
6 clues in and one players questions anothers solution.
Bedlam.
Originally posted by greenpawn34
7 chess players on a train.
One decides to do a crossword puzzle and nobody is interested.
Suddenly someone suggest we all do one clue each and pass it
to the player sitting next to us.
AH. A Competition. All the players are now interested.
6 clues in and one players questions anothers solution.
Bedlam.
7 chess players on a train.
There's method in its madness (10)