The best alternative idea is to make winning a challenge by making pawn drop mate position possible, but checkmating with another piece
Weekly Challenge 52: Checkmate By Pawn Drop
Entries for Weekly Challenge 52 has closed. Thanks to all users who participated.
The winner of the initial challenge set was @oruro who was the first user to correctly identifying that it was an impossible challenge which was deliberately set on a particular date!
The winner of the challenge set after this is @lupo_wolf who won a game of Shogi by stalemate against @PS-Greedy-Two-Move with the winning move being a pawn drop (placing a Pawn onto the board from your hand) in the following game: playstrategy.org/WtLKqtep
Users are still welcome to attempt this challenge and post answers here, but the winner has been fixed. The next challenge can be found here: playstrategy.org/forum/weekly-challenges/weekly-challenge-53-castling-checkmate
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