How Can This Be?

September 22, 2013 – 12:08 am

For you chessplayers: a pretty puzzle, from Susan Polgar. Here.

Posted by Malcolm on at 12:08 am, filed under Chess. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

2 Comments

  1. Kevin Kim says

    I was quizzical until I cheated and read the comments. The basic idea is that there’s no way to stop Black’s “a” pawn, so let it queen itself. Meanwhile, White positions the king at e2, which means the king can’t move from then on, once the queening has occurred; at the same time White shuffles the rest of its pieces until they can’t move, either–et voilÁ : a forced stalemate.

    Posted September 22, 2013 at 2:48 am | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    Right. The nicest part is the corralling of the Black K at h8.

    Posted September 22, 2013 at 11:49 pm | Permalink

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