[Retros] Haunted SPGs

[A J Mestel]

SOLUTION given in text below:
Please notify me of any cooks.

Is the general feeling that one should not send unpublished problems to
this list then? I assumed it would thereby meet the attention of most of
the people who are interested in this sort of thing...

   Jonathan

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, A J Mestel wrote:


> 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

>


1 e4 d5 2 Ke2 Bh3 3 Kf3 Bxg2+ 4 Kg4 e6 5 Kh5 Bd6 6 Qg4 Ke7 7 Qxg7 Nf6+
8 Kh6 Re8 9 exd5 Ne4 10 Kxh7 Bf4 11 Qg8[Pg7] Kf6 12 Be2 Kg5 13 Bf3 Kh4
14 Ne2 Kh3 15 Rd1 Kxh2 16 b3 Bf1[Pg2] 17 Ba3 Kh1[Ph2] 18 Bf8 c5
19 d6[Pd5] d4 20 Kh8[Pg7]


>  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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