[Retros] Haunted SPGs
A J Mestel
A.J.Mestel at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Thu Sep 12 04:33:44 EDT 2002
The following did not make the award, but I was quite pleased with it
(if it's not cooked...please inform me of any found)
J. Mestel + O. Comay
rn1qrBQK/pp3ppp/3Pp3/2p5/3pnb2/1P3B2/P1PPNPPP/RN1R1b1k
SPG 19.5 Haunted Chess
All the best,
Jonathan
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 CAILLAUDM at aol.com wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> In Portoroz, Tadashi Wakashima introduced Haunted Chess for his Japanese
> Sake Tourney.
> Here is how it works :
> in a capture, a ghost of the captured piece stays on the capture square; the
> piece reappears once the capturing piece moves again;
> in case of several ghosts on the same square (i.e. consecutive captures),
> the older ones definitely disappear; only the more recent is subject to
> "reappearance";
> in the special case of en passant, the ghost square can be passed through
> but not occupied until the "reappearance" (when the capturing pawn moves
> again).
>
> There were 2 SPGs in the award (of course not C+). Here they are :
>
> 2nd Prize :
> Reto Aschwanden
> rsbqkbsr/ppp1P1pp/4P3/4P3/3pP3/4Pp2/P3P2P/RSBQKBSR
> SPG 13,5 Haunted Chess
>
> 4th Com :
> Michel Caillaud
> 1sbqkbsr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RSBQKBSR
> SPG 8,0 Haunted Chess
>
> Best,
> Michel
>
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