{"id":50,"date":"2013-02-24T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisbright.com\/bln\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-02-24T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:51:32","slug":"super-stalemate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/24\/super-stalemate\/","title":{"rendered":"Super stalemate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posed the following puzzle: is stalemate possible in chess <em>if it is legal to move into check<\/em>? Give it some thought first, then see my answer below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although the kinds of stalemate which are likely to occur in actual play depend on the fact that it is not legal to move into check, a more restrictive stalemate is possible. In the following two positions, white is in &#8220;super stalemate&#8221;, with no legal moves even if they could move into check.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51\" alt=\"stalemate1\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stalemate1.png\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stalemate1.png 242w, http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stalemate1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52\" alt=\"stalemate2\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stalemate2.png\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stalemate2.png 242w, http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stalemate2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technically, one also has to verify there is some legal sequence of moves which produces such positions. In these cases it is tedious but completely straightforward to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posed the following puzzle: is stalemate possible in chess if it is legal to move into check? Give it some thought first, then see my answer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}