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margalabargala 9 hours ago

Am I missing something, or is the configuration shown initially not actually reachable? It's white to move, yet the black pawns are in their starting location and the black king has no adjacent empty square, it's entombed by its pawns and the white bishop so the configuration could not have been reached.

Eji1700 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Proof is provided here for one of them: https://lichess.org/study/PLtuv3v5/zWPNxbSA

To be clear you're misunderstanding the position though. Black pawns are NOT in starting position. They've moved all the way across the board. Those are white pawn starting positions.

margalabargala 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep that's what I was missing. Thank you for the link.

KK7NIL 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The black pawns are on white's side of the board.

margalabargala 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's what I missed. Thank you :-)

jibal 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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margalabargala 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks for the condescension. It really helps me file your comment's suggestions appropriately.

Here's a general rule of thumb: If the options are

a) answer someone's question, and

b) answer someone's question but also then spend triple the word count telling them it was a stupid question

Then picking (b) makes you an asshole. If all you had written was your first sentence this could have been a pleasant interaction for us both.