Minimum N moves

What is the minimum number of N moves required to legally reach this position?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
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What is the minimum number of N moves required to legally reach this position?

5?

Originally posted by Mephisto2
5?

How did you get that number?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
How did you get that number?

Rolled a six-sided dice.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
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What is the minimum number of N moves required to legally reach this position?

What are 'N moves' are they different to ordinary moves?

And I also came up with 5. ... But I guess I'm starting from a different position than you envisaged!

Thirty-something?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
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What is the minimum number of N moves required to legally reach this position?

New Jersey?

This looks imposible.
The white king must come through b6, b7 then move to g8 to allow rooks in. But where does black king sit?

whoops .. now i see!

white king went from b6 to c7-d8-e8-f7 then the rook came in.
its just a counting game from there, and I don't have time for it. got to go, hope I helped.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
What are \'N moves\' are they different to ordinary moves?

Knight moves.

White has to make 6 pawn captures. Conceivably thats 2 pawns, 2 rooks, Queen & Bishop. Blacks knights dont need to move.

Black only has to make 5 pawn captures and again no need for white's knights to move.

So I guess answer is zero.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
White has to make 6 pawn captures. Conceivably thats 2 pawns, 2 rooks, Queen & Bishop. Blacks knights dont need to move.

Black only has to make 5 pawn captures and again no need for white\'s knights to move.

So I guess answer is zero.

Superficial analysis leads to superficial results.

Sorry, thanks for playing, better luck next time.

it was an educated guess - I dont have time to waste on these things

Originally posted by wolfgang59
it was an educated guess - I dont have time to waste on these things

Yeah. Your schedule's already booked for solving the math problems on here.

But no worries. I post these kind of problems occasionally to see if there are any others who enjoy them. If that's not you, don't sweat it.

Edit: Hey! Aren't you the guy who said, "The whole point of a mathematical proof is its VIGOUR!" Same applies to retros!