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I don't understand why it needs the pawn at h3. Remove the black pawn at h3 and you get a mate in two with 6 black pawns rather than 7. Or place the black pawn
by litoE 4y ago
I don't understand why it needs the pawn at h3.
Remove the black pawn at h3 and you get a mate in two with 6 black pawns rather than 7.
Or place the black pawn at h2 instead of h3, and you get a mate in one move with 7 black pawns.
- alexmolas 4y agoI don't see how do you get the mate -without promotion- without the black pawn at h3. Can you show the moves please?
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- im3w1l 4y agoWithout the h3 pawn, white could capture at g2 after black moves from f3 to f2. Edit: Regarding your second point of getting a mate in one, I think you are misunderstanding the goal here. It's to construct a mating sequence that is as long as possible, and which permits no shortcuts (in this case the position has a mate in 2 but no mate in 1). A shorter sequence can always be constructed by taking the end of a longer one, so that's uninteresting.