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Borderline. Without pawns, with only one king, capturing opponent's pieces is omitted. (7x7, Cells: 49) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Tue, Feb 21, 2023 01:56 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 01:21 PM:

@Fergus

Before the queen can capture the king, the queen must first have put the king in check. And it can only do this when it has crossed the borderline. White queen (here blue) can only do this on ranks 5-7, black queen (here red) analogously on ranks 1-3.