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[Christoph Fieberg]

Hello Nicolas,

Bishop with capture:
What about
1.e4 e6 2.Bb5 Ke7 3.Bxd7 Kf6 4.Bb5 Kg5 5.Nh3+ Kh4 6.g3+ Kxh3 7.Bf1# ?

Best regards,
Christoph

At 04:27 28.09.2006, you wrote:


>King without capture : 5.5 moves  (Noam Elkies)

>1.d4 f6 2.Qd3 Kf7 3.Qh3 Kg6 4.Kd2 Kg5 5.Nc3 Kf4 6.Ke1#

>King with capture : not least

>

>Knight without capture : 6 moves (Itamar Faybish)

>1.e3 e6 2.Ke2 Bd6 3.Kf3 Qf6+ 4.Kg4 Ne7 5.Kh5 g6+ 6.Kh6 Ng8#

>Knight with capture : not least

>

>Queen without capture : 6 moves  (Joachim Iglesias)

>1.d3 d6 2.Kd2 Bd7 3.Kc3 Qc8 4.Kb4 c5+ 5.Ka5 Bc6 6.b4 Qd8#

>Queen with capture : not least

>

>Bishop without capture : 6.5 moves (Itamar Faybish)

>1.e4 e5 2.Ne2 Ke7 3.Nec3 Kf6 4.Be2 Kg5 5.d3+ Kh4 6.g3+ Kh3 7.Bf1#

>Bishop with capture : not least

>

>Rook without capture : 7.5 moves (Noam Elkies)

>1.h4 e6 2.h5 Qh4 3.h6 Qe4 4.f4 f6 5.Nf3 Kf7 6.Rg1 Kg6 7. Ne5+ Kh5 8.Rh1#

>Rook with capture : 6 moves (Joachim Iglesias)

>1.e3 e6 2.Ke2 Ne7 3.Kf3 Rg8 4.Kg4 h5+ 5.Kxh5 Nec6 6.Qg4 Rh8#

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