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Weekly Challenge 52: Checkmate By Pawn Drop

#1

Weekly Challenge 52: Checkmate By Pawn Drop

Win a game of Shogi vs @PS-Greedy-Two-Move with the winning move being a pawn drop (placing a Pawn onto the board from your hand) to deliver checkmate.

Adjudication Criteria:
1. Fewest moves (plies)
2. Earliest Entry
Closing Date: Monday 8th April 1200 UTC+0

#2

Hello everyone!

Is it possible to deliver checkmate in a Shogi game with a pawn drop?

#3

@oruro
No, i don't think this is possible to do that, i checked with the analysis board on playstrategy and lishogi creating a position where there is a checkmate with a pawn drop and i wasn't able to do so...

#4

But i don't know what the "winning move" mentioned does refer to

#5

Yeah it's literally impossible. In the Shogi rules: "2. Pawns cannot be dropped to give checkmate, checks are okay."

I think we need something different.

#7

yeah the problem is that in the problem, it says "the winning move being a pawn drop TO DELIVER CHECKMATE", but that is impossible to fulfil.

#8

Nice April Fool's joke, now it's time for the real werkly challenge

#9

Hello @PlayStrategy .. I am here to inform that in shogi, pawns cannot be dropped to give checkmate... Well.. I totally did not realise that it was the Fools Month lol

#10

Congratulations to @oruro who has won this weekly challenge by correctly identifying that it was an impossible challenge which was deliberately set on a particular date!

Users can continue to have a go at a tweaked version of the challenge which is possible:
> Win a game of Shogi vs @PS-Greedy-Two-Move with the winning move being a pawn drop (placing a Pawn onto the board from your hand) to deliver stalemate.

Currently, @lupo_wolf leads this challenge with their entry above.

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