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(Message started by: THUDandBLUNDER on Jan 6^th, 2004, 11:02am)

Title: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jan 6^th, 2004, 11:02am

White has a king, a queen and two pawns against Black's lone king.
It is White to move.
It is not stalemate.
White still cannot win.

Construct such a position.

Given the above conditions, how much material is it possible for White to have?

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by The_Fool on Jan 13^th, 2004, 9:39am

Is it that white has only one move, or is it that white can move, then black, forever, and white cannot win?

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jan 13^th, 2004, 2:51pm

Whichever move White makes, the position will be stalemate.

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Feb 12^th, 2004, 10:33pm

Here is the solution:

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Feb 12^th, 2004, 10:34pm

Quote:

Given the above conditions, how much material is it possible for White to have?

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by JQC on Mar 4^th, 2004, 3:51pm

on 02/12/04 at 22:33:54, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:

Here is the solution:

What if white moves his queen to E8, then Black takes the pawn at H7? white could then rearrange his pieces accordingly to get a checkmate.

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by John_Gaughan on Mar 4^th, 2004, 7:04pm

on 02/12/04 at 22:33:54, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:

Here is the solution:

If white moves queen to G8, it is checkmate. It he moves queen to G1, black can take the pawn and it is not stalemate.

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Mar 4^th, 2004, 10:23pm

::) White cannot move his queen to g8 or g1 or e8 because his queen is on h5, not g6! ::)

Title: Re: White Cannot Win (Chess)
Post by John_Gaughan on Mar 5^th, 2004, 6:02am

When you get old your eyesight is not quite what it used to be... queens and kings start looking a lot alike ;-)