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I implore for aid! Fiendish chess puzzle escapes my grasp!

I implore for aid! Fiendish chess puzzle escapes my grasp!

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I need help with an enigma. It perplexes and vexes me.
The puzzle is as follows:

Set up the board as it was 2 moves ago.
Board: Black king A8, white king c8, white bishop g1, white pawn h2

Hints: Black must have captured a piece last move
White must of used a discovered check
Can anyone help? I am at my knees!

JS357

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Originally posted by Ares64
I need help with an enigma. It perplexes and vexes me.
The puzzle is as follows:

Set up the board as it was 2 moves ago.
Board: Black king A8, white king c8, white bishop g1, white pawn h2

Hints: Black must have captured a piece last move
White must of used a discovered check
Can anyone help? I am at my knees!
You have not started any games on RHP, but nonetheless, if this is an active game of yours, there should be no comment.

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Originally posted by JS357
You have not started any games on RHP, but nonetheless, if this is an active game of yours, there should be no comment.
Still a non-starter so it must be a puzzle.

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Originally posted by Ares64
I need help with an enigma. It perplexes and vexes me.
The puzzle is as follows:

Set up the board as it was 2 moves ago.
Board: Black king A8, white king c8, white bishop g1, white pawn h2

Hints: Black must have captured a piece last move
White must of used a discovered check
Can anyone help? I am at my knees!
Black king A8, white king c8, white bishop g1, white pawn h2

i.e. like this ?



I don't see how you work out what was captured...

BK

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is this as it was two moves ago?
or as it is now?

BK

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Originally posted by JS357
You have not started any games on RHP, but nonetheless, if this is an active game of yours, there should be no comment.
and i dont think games require you to think back two moves...😀

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Originally posted by iamatiger
Black king A8, white king c8, white bishop g1, white pawn h2

i.e. like this ?

[fen]k1K5/8/8/8/8/8/7P/6b1[/fen]

I don't see how you work out what was captured...
White bishop on g1, not black. Like this:



And I presume the OP means two plys, i.e. two half-moves, or one move for each player; otherwise the puzzle is unsolvable.

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Originally posted by Shallow Blue
White bishop on g1, not black. Like this:

[fen]k1K5/8/8/8/8/8/7P/6B1[/fen]

And I presume the OP means two plys, i.e. two half-moves, or one move for each player; otherwise the puzzle is unsolvable.

Richard
Ah, ok, so did it start like this:?

iamatiger

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Originally posted by iamatiger
Ah, ok, so did it start like this:?

[fen]2K5/k7/1N6/8/8/8/7P/6B1[/fen]
or like this perhaps?

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BK

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but i thought it was blacks turn first?

iamatiger

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Black captured a piece last move, so the move before the last one it must have been white's move...

BK

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ah...

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Originally posted by iamatiger
or like this perhaps?

[fen]q1K5/k7/1N6/8/8/8/7P/6B1[/fen]
but that's a rediculous move black would have made before white took the queen with the horse...why would black leave the queen in corner like that?? Seems dumb.

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perhaps the white queen was there, threatening to take the black queen next move, or perhaps this is just a puzzle

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Originally posted by uzless
but that's a rediculous move black would have made before white took the queen with the horse...why would black leave the queen in corner like that?? Seems dumb.
This is a retrograde analysis problem, not a chess game with white competing against black. Retros aren't concerned with whether moves are good or bad, but only their legality.

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