[Retros] Precisions about Checkless Chess tourney

[Thomas Maeder]

Am 26.05.2012 17:13, schrieb Noam Elkies:

> "Andrew Buchanan"<andrew at anselan.com>  writes:

>

>> In Hochberg's "Outrageous Chess Problems" I think there is a checkless

>> problem involving a couple of nightriders, but I can't remember the

>> details.

>

> I don't either, but it's probably something like Kd3,Rd2,Rh2/Ke5,Nc7,Nf7, producing the conundrum of whether Rh2-e2 is checkmate or an illegal move.


This is in the examples shipped with Popeye:

anfang
auto Gerd Rinder
quel Seite 9, Die Schwalbe, X/1969
ford #1
bedi ohneschach
stei
weis kd7 td8h8 la1h1
schw ke5 nc3f3
ende


              Gerd Rinder
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               OhneSchach

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-- 
Thomas