[Retros] Re: Massacre SPGs - Stalemate SPG

[Ryan M.]

http://www.janko.at/Retros/Strategems/N19.htm

has two examples of stalemate PG's.  P0102 is a modification of Loyd's
famous "shortest stalemate game", which had a dual.  P0106 shows Black
stalemated despite having all 16 units on the board.

-Ryan McCracken
Retro/PG editor, StrateGems


-----Original Message-----
From: retros-admin at janko.at [mailto:retros-admin at janko.at] On Behalf Of
fieberg at gcr.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:25 AM
To: retros at janko.at
Subject: Re: [Retros] Re: Massacre SPGs - Stalemate SPG



> > - stalemate in 15.5 (4+1)


I was wondering, is this the first known stalemate SPG?

As always, thanks for your feedback.

                Francois


Hello Francois, 
stalemate SPGs do exist already. 

For me it was a challenge to compose a special stalemate SPG which
fullfills the following tasks: 
1. Black has still all 16 pieces on board (and is stalemated). 
2. White has a maximum number of pieces on board. In my composition I
achieved 14 which gives a total of 30 pieces. 

It was just published in "Die Schwalbe", February 2004, Issue 205,
Problem #12181. 

Regards, 
Christoph