Can you find a symmetric position (there is a black piece on file X rank Y if and only if there is an equal white piece on file X rank 9-Y) in which it's white's turn and black wins?
Originally posted by David113 Can you find a symmetric position (there is a black piece on file X rank Y if and only if there is an equal white piece on file X rank 9-Y) in which it's white's turn and black wins?
Try doing it with minimal number of pieces...
6 pieces,
White: King at A1, Rooks at B5 and B6
Black: King at A8, Rooks at B4 and B3
Originally posted by David113 Can you find a symmetric position (there is a black piece on file X rank Y if and only if there is an equal white piece on file X rank 9-Y) in which it's white's turn and black wins?
Try doing it with minimal number of pieces...
It can be done with one King and one Pawn each. Simple opposition endgame. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the exact position would be as I never looked into it very carefully.
Originally posted by agryson 8 pieces,
White: King at A1, Rooks at G6 and H7, pawn at G4
Black: King at A8, Rooks at G3 and H2, pawn at G4
White moves G6 Rook to G8, Checkmate.
Sorry, Dunno how to insert boards.
If you got winboard just put there the position you want. The go to file and choose copy position to clipboard. The when you are posting click on the Insert board from FEN link and paste the text on the window that appears.
I think you can do that too with any other game viewer software.
* thousandyoung, sadly not. If you think about it. with symmetry, it has to be a position where kings are on opposite coloured squares. Opposition for black is not an option.
Originally posted by adam warlock If you got winboard just put there the position you want. The go to file and choose copy position to clipboard. The when you are posting click on the Insert board from FEN link and paste the text on the window that appears.
I think you can do that too with any other game viewer software.
Originally posted by doodinthemood * thousandyoung, sadly not. If you think about it. with symmetry, it has to be a position where kings are on opposite coloured squares. Opposition for black is not an option.
Do you have a solution? Not to have it, but just to know the minimum number of pieces we can aim for...
Originally posted by David113 Can you find a symmetric position (there is a black piece on file X rank Y if and only if there is an equal white piece on file X rank 9-Y) in which it's white's turn and black wins?
Try doing it with minimal number of pieces...
Beat this!
White to move
White is in zugzwang - he must give up a pawn for nothing, or commit his King and allow a winning pawn push [1.Kb2 d2, for example].
Originally posted by zzyw Swissgambit, is your solution original or do you have a source? Do you think there's other minimal solutions? I don't think fewer pieces is possible.
I have a vague memory of seeing something like this before. I would not be surprised if this position is already known.
There may be other solutions with 2 pawns each. Even the position I gave can be shifted right or left, so it's really not just one solution.
22 Nov '07 17:171 edit
Mutual ZZ in a symmetric position...
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