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1 - P0001605
Dmitri W. Pronkin
Andrey Frolkin

475 Europe Echecs 337 01/1987
P0001605
(1+16) C+
BP in 17.0
1. d3 h6 2. Lg5 hxg5 3. h4 Txh4 4. a4 Txa4 5. Th6 Sxh6 6. g4 Sxg4 7. Lg2 Sxf2 8. Lc6 Sxc6 9. d4 Sxd4 10. c4 Sxe2 11. c5 Sxg1 12. c6 dxc6 13. Dd4 Dxd4 14. Ta3 Dxb2 15. Th3 Lxh3 16. Sc3 0-0-0 17. Sd5 Txd5= patt
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Henrik Juel: Black makes 15 captures.
The first 13.0 moves are correct by Euclide 1.0, but it takes some 4 minutes, so a complete test would probably take more than a day (2014-12-09)
paul: Jacobi checked the last 16 moves (in about 20 min). (2018-05-10)
Mario Richter: I would like to label this problem as a "Massacre PG", but the current definition of that term only knows of two-sided MPGs. Perhaps we could make the same differentiation as for "Homebase"?!
Btw., wasn't "popeye" best for such massacres?
rawbats confirms complete correctness of the problem after approx. 25 minutes. (2018-05-11)
Henrik Juel: Yes, Mario, Popeye is fairly good at this type
C+ by Popeye 4.61 in 57 minutes (2018-05-11)
A.Buchanan: @Mario: yes I agree it would be good to make massacre more specific. There are 69 massacres currently, almost all 2-sided, but maybe also some series-movers (unique or non-unique) which are currently not counted? (2018-05-12)
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Keywords: Unique Proof Game, Castling, Homebase (w), Rex solus (w), Massacre PG
Genre: Retro
Computer test: C+ rawbats. C+ by Popeye 4.61 in 57 minutes. C+ Stelvio 1.2 2 Sekunden. Keine Lösung: BP 16.0, BP 16.5.
FEN: 2k2b2/ppp1ppp1/2p5/3r2p1/r7/7b/1q3n2/4K1n1
Reprints: 116 Shortest Proof Games 11/1991
20a 64 Proof Games 2012
Input: Gerd Wilts, 1995-06-03
Last update: A.Buchanan, 2023-05-21 more...
2 - P0004066
S. N. Ravishankar
2069 diagrammes 89 04-06/1989
P0004066
(2+1)
#1 vor 6
VRZ, Typ Proca
R: 1. Ke2xLf1 ~ 2. Kd3xLe2 ~ 3. Kc4xLd3 ~ 4. Kb5xLc4 ~ 5. Kb6-b5! ~ 6. Sa6xSb8, dann 1. Sc7#
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S N Ravi Shankar: This problem is not mine. (2019-01-02)
Mario Richter: My first guess for the solution was:
R: 1. Ke2xLf1 2. Kd3xLe2 3. Kc4xLd3 4. Kb5xLc4 5. Ka6xLb5 Lc6-b5+ 6. Sd7xLb8, dann 1. Sb6#, but that doesn't work because of 5. ... Ld7-b5+!
Does someone see (or know) the correct solution? (2019-01-03)
Henrik Juel: No, because with 1... Lh3-f1+, 5.Ka6-b5 thr. 6.Sd7xLb8 fails similarly on 5... Ld7-h3 (2019-01-03)
S N Ravi Shankar: Does adding a black knight on e6 cure? 1. Ke2xLf1 2. Kd3xLe2 3. Kc4xLd3 4. Kb5xLc4 5. Ka6-b5! followed by 6. Sd7xLb8 and now 1. Sb6#. (2023-02-20)
S N Ravi Shankar: The problem appears to be sound. 1.Ke2xLf1 2.Kd3xLe2 3.Kc4xLd3 4.Kb5xLc4 5.Kb6-b5! followed by 6.Sa6xSb8 and now 1.Sc7#. (2024-02-18)
A.Buchanan: WinChloe also gives the same composer. A curious situation, but at least the problem attributed to you appears to be sound! (2024-02-19)
Adrian Storisteanu: Above the "diagrammes" diagram there is: R. SHANKAR, Inde. In the volume index, under RETROS: this is the only problem of a composer named (just) "SHANKAR" (one original), while "RAVI SHANKAR" is a different author (with two originals). (2024-02-20)
A.Buchanan: I suggest that S.N.Ravishankar check the reaponse to the query (A='Shankar' or a='Ravishankar') AND NOT A='Shankar Ram, Narajan' as there are many other similar retros which are attributed to Ravishankar. If he can state here which ones are not his, I will happily modify the data. (2024-02-21)
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Keywords: Defensive Retractor, Type Proca, Rex solus (s), Aristocrat, Minimal, Miniature
Genre: Retro
FEN: kN6/8/8/8/8/8/8/5K2
Input: Gerd Wilts, 1995-06-03
Last update: A.Buchanan, 2024-02-21 more...
3 - P1001038
Andrew Buchanan
4v Retros mailing list 21/01/2001
P1001038
(14+1) C+
Last move?
#2
1. 0-0 Kxe2 2. Te1#
R: 1. Ke4-e3
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Die vorherige Stellung war noch nicht tot, wenn Weiß noch rochieren darf.
AB: First proof of "can castle", without recourse to conventions. (2009-11-22)
A.Buchanan: deadpos doesn't understand about retro logic yet, so does not eliminate R: 1. Ke4xLSBe3? (2022-11-13)
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Keywords: Dead Position, Castling, Rex solus (s), Obvious promotion (L), Last Move?, Type B
Genre: Retro, 2#
Computer test: HC+ Forward Popeye 4.79 DP deadpos
FEN: 8/7Q/8/4BB2/2PP1P2/3NkN2/PP2P1P1/4K2R
Reprints: 13 idee & form 156, p. 5284, 10/2022
Input: Gerd Wilts, 2001-01-25
Last update: A.Buchanan, 2023-12-27 more...
4 - P1197461
Thomas Woschnik
834 Augsburger Allgemeine 05/02/2005
P1197461
(6+1)
#3*
Schwarz am Zuge
1. ... Kxb2 2. Db3+ Ka1 3. Sc2#
1. ... Kxd4 2. Kc1 Kc3 3. Dc4#
1. ... Kxb4 2. Dc4+ Ka3 3. Db3#
2. ... Ka5 3. Db5#
Leser Hans Gruber wies darauf hin, dass mit wSf5 eine normaler Dreizüger mit Schlüssel 1. Sd4 möglich ist.
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A.Buchanan: If this was simply stipulated #2 it would work great. Was the stipulation currently given here (#3* BTM) actually the originalforderung? How are we meant to interpret the *? (2024-01-10)
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Keywords: No legal last move for Black, Rex solus
Genre: 3#, Retro
FEN: 8/8/4Q3/8/1P1N4/2k5/1N2P3/3K4
Reprints: 141 Kniffelige Schachaufgaben III 2011
Input: Frank Müller, 2011-06-12
Last update: A.Buchanan, 2024-01-10 more...
5 - P1257244
Satoshi Hashimoto
R175 Problem Paradise 57 01-03/2012
3. Lob
2010-2012
P1257244
(1+16) C+
BP in 22,0
1. e4 Sc6 2. e5 Sxe5 3. a4 c6 4. a5 Dxa5 5. c4 b6 6. Sc3 Dxc3 7. Ta6 Lxa6 8. b4 Lxc4 9. Db3 Lxb3 10. Lc4 Sxc4 11. Se2 e5 12. 0-0 Lxb4 13. d4 Ke7 14. Lh6 Sxh6 15. f4 The8 16. f5 Sxf5 17. h4 Sxh4 18. Tf6 Kxf6 19. d5 Te6 20. d6 Txd6 21. Sd4 Txd4 22. g4 Txg4+
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Henrik Juel: Black makes 15 captures.
The first 16.0 moves are correct by Euclide 1.0; but it takes some 14 minutes, so a complete test would probably take days (2014-12-09)
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Keywords: Unique Proof Game, Rex solus (w), Castling
Genre: Retro
Computer test: Computerprüfung: C+ Stelvio 1.0 05:42:59 Stunden. (hh:mm:ss) Keine Lösung: BP 21.0, BP 21.5.
FEN: r7/p2p1ppp/1pp2k2/4p3/1bn3rn/1bq5/8/6K1
Reprints: 64 64 Proof Games 2012
R175 Problem Paradise 66 04-06/2014
Input: Gerd Wilts, 2012-12-23
Last update: A.Buchanan, 2023-03-10 more...
6 - P1294321
Andrew Buchanan
www.anselan.com 2001
P1294321
(1+2)
Black to move. Last move?
R: 1. Kb8xSa8
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Compare P0001033.
Gerald Ettl: steht der sLh5 vielleicht auf h2 ?? (2023-07-02)
SCHRECKE: Why not R: Kb8xLa8? (2023-07-03)
Mario Richter: Wie "SCHRECKE" mit seiner Frage schon illustriert hat: mit dem sL auf h2 wäre das Problem inkorrekt, da neben R: 1. Kb8xSa8 auch R: 1. Kb8xLa8 als letzter Zug möglich gewesen wäre. Grund sind die etwas verwirrenden Dead-Reckoning-Regeln: mit sLh5 kann zuletzt nicht Kb8xLa8 geschehen sein, da in der Stellung wKb8 - sKb6 sLh5 sLa8 wegen der unzureichendes-Material-zum-Mattsetzen-Regel das Spiel schon in dieser Position beendet gewesen wäre, der wK als gar nicht mehr zur Ausführung eines Zuges geommen wäre ... (2023-07-03)
Mario Richter: Dear James, I suggest that you undo last change and put the black bishop back on h5! (2023-07-03)
A.Buchanan: There are 17 valid squares for the wB. Got to be on a light square for reasons given. Also it can't occupy or attack c8. And can't be attacking a8 because BTM. I think h5 selection was random, but could argue for any. (2023-07-04)
A.Buchanan: Or maybe bBa4, with which White by his last move avoided a completely sound #12. (2023-07-04)
Gerald Ettl: Dann waere es vielleicht ganz sinnvoll man schreibt die Bedingung unter das Diagramm. (2023-07-04)
A.Buchanan: Hi Gerald, it's not a condition, it's a FIDE rule since 1997, invented by a problemist who is also a rules committee member (Igor Vereschchagin) and approved by the rules committee (headed by FIDE Head International Arbiter Stewart Reuben), backed up by a WFCC convention since 2015 (Kjell Widlert & Michel Caillaud, responding to a request from some endgame studiers who understood that it was a real thing. Like 50M rule, it applies by default for retro problems. And the PDB keywords here give the game away anyway. If it was a forward stipulation, then I would indeed add a stipulation, e.g. P1208623. Please enjoy the madness that is DP rule :) P.S. I have found recently that it was really invented by Shakespeare. (2023-07-04)
Gerald Ettl: Ich spiele nicht nach den FIDE-Regel. (2023-07-04)
Olaf Jenkner: Allright.
https://www.skat-online.com/regeln-hilfe/regelwerk/internationale-skatordnung.html (2023-07-05)
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Keywords: Type B, Last Move? (KxS), Dead Position, Economy record (Last Move? Type B), Rex solus (W), Aristocrat, Miniature, Minimal
Genre: Retro
FEN: K7/8/1k6/7b/8/8/8/8
Reprints: Retros mailing list 20/02/2007
Input: A.Buchanan, 2015-01-07
Last update: James Malcom, 2023-07-03 more...
7 - P1408435
Claus Grupen
140v Mitteilungsblatt der Kieler SG 03/1984
P1408435
(1+9)
letztes Zugpaar?
Single box
R: 1. Bd2xSc1=D+ Se2-c1
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Nachträglicher Kommentar des Autors: Der sBc4 kann entfallen.
Auch veröffentlicht in "KSG-Problemschach 1969-1987".

Der Autor nimmt die Idee von Mario Richter dankend auf und korrigiert sein Stück mit der zusätzlichen Bedingung Single box. Im neuen Diagramm ist auch der überflüssige sBc4 entfernt worden. Die Erstveröffentlichung dieser Korrektur ist die PDB-website am 17.05.2023.
Cook: Falls nicht eine Bedingung (z.B. single-box) fehlt, gehen auch
R: 1. Bd2xSc1=D+ Se2xSc1
R: 1. Bd2xSc1=D+ Se2xLc1
Joost de Heer: Why not Se2×Lc1? (2023-03-22)
Henrik Juel: Why not, indeed
Or 1... Se2xSc1 (2023-03-22)
A.Buchanan: Maybe one of those situations where composer/editor weren't precise that the ultimate retraction was not fully specified (2023-03-23)
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Keywords: Rex solus (w), Promotion (d), Single Box
Genre: Retro, Fairies
FEN: 8/8/8/8/8/2bn4/bpK4r/knqr4
Input: Gunter Jordan, 2023-03-22
Last update: A.Buchanan, 2024-01-18 more...
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