Problem 551: Karol Mlynka - Fairy (KoBul Kings, Super Pawn, Sentinelles, Anti Super Circe, Pressburger King) |
![]() ![]() a) 1.Ke2(+wPf2) 2.Kf1(+wPe2)
3.SPxc6(g7=rR)(wSPc6-h8B)+ Rxh8(f1=rB)(bRh8-h1)(+bPh7)#
b) 1.SPf8S 2.Sxh7(g7=rR)(wSh7-g6)
3.Kh1(+wPg2) Rxg6(h1=rS)(bRg6-f1)(+bPc6)#
A tanagra with minor promotions in Serie-Reflexmate. White Pressburger King is mated as Kobul King (= royal B or S). (Author)
Pressburger King (Super-transmuting King): King, which definitively takes the nature of the checking piece. After being checking, the King loses his Royal status and can be captured.
Super Pawn:can go as far as they like in the usual directions, when moving or capturing; promotions are normal.
Sentinelles: When a piece (Pawn excluded) leaves a square outside the first and last rows, it leaves a Pawn of the color of the side that played unless 8 Pawns in this color are already on the board.
Anti Super Circe: After a capture the capturing piece (Ks included) must immediately be removed on any free field on the chess board. |
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Comments
idea that the wK loses the Pressburg property when it is transformed by the KoBul condition into another royal piece? That isn't self-evident, it doesn't even seem logical to me.
But if the wK still has the Pressburg property at the end - then the mates are obviously no mates at all. (It is almost impossible to mate a Pressburg K!)
When checked, the check has to be countered immediately. Failure to do so is mate. ONLY after the check is answered the King loses its royal property.
Transformation through "Kobul Kings" does not affect its royal status (as there is no check to the King on that move in this problem)
Does the white royal piece have the Pressburger property in the end?
It was not about the royal property.
Or, why the white royal B/S doesn't "take the nature of the checking piece" when it is checked in the end?
It seems to me the wK must have lost the Pressburg property, which must have happened when the wK was KoBul-transformed, and I don't quite see the justification why this would happen.
Or else the problem is unsound.
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