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Mutual stalemate with all pieces. Construct a mutual stalemate setup using all 32 pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
T Wootten wrote on Mon, Sep 7, 2009 05:16 PM UTC:
Another solution:
NRBQKBRN
*PPPPPP*
*P****P*
********
********
*p****p*
*pppppp*
nrbqkbrn
White (uppercase) pawns move upwards, black (lowercase) downwards - thus neither can go anywhere. The positions of the bishops, king, and queen can be changed around.
I think this was on Wikipedia, as the starting position for a chess variant - since no player has any legal moves, the game is opened with an ILLEGAL one!

John Smith wrote on Mon, Sep 7, 2009 06:11 PM UTC:
A well-known such setup is Patt-schach.

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