Posted by Eswo 2 days ago
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> In other words, after arranging the five black pieces, it must be impossible to place the white king anywhere without it being in checkmate.
These two sentences mean very different things in the normal rules of chess. And if you replace the word “checkmate” with the word “check” in the second sentence it still doesn’t mean the same thing as the first sentence.
The first sentence implies that all the pieces must be defended.
Edit: Eh, I guess it depends on how you view the word “attack” since all the pieces are the same colour.
Should maybe update the instructions to clarify that the dark-squared bishop is not constrained to dark squares.
sorry, "The task is to place four black queens and one black bishop on the chessboard" is not at all ambiguous.
where did you read "dark-squared"?
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