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MatPlus.Net Forum General no pawns=Aristocrat, kings and pawns=kindergarten...
 
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(1) Posted by Eugene Rosner [Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 14:57]

no pawns=Aristocrat, kings and pawns=kindergarten...


is there a name for problems without queens?!
 
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(2) Posted by Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe [Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 23:04]

Queenless? That is at least a way to describe it with one word. I don't know any other word for it.
 
 
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(3) Posted by Darko Šaljić [Monday, Aug 4, 2014 08:42]

"Queer"? :)
 
   
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(4) Posted by Zalmen Kornin [Tuesday, Aug 5, 2014 02:56]

celibatarian !?
 
   
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(5) Posted by Neal Turner [Wednesday, Aug 6, 2014 09:56]; edited by Neal Turner [14-08-06]

Does anybody else think that the Queen is too strong a piece in Chess!?
When I play I'm very happy to get the queens off early and get a 'real' game without the distraction of having to worry about surprise ambushes from Her Majesty.

It's different in problems - especially short ones - we need the queen to provide the necessary tactical intensity, but still it would be a good exercise for a composer to try to make something interesting without queens.

(Paradoxically in my own speciality - SAT + Royal Grasshopper - queens become the least useful piece as it's not possible for them to produce check by arrival.
Knights take their rightful place as the strongest piece!
Check out Julia's Fairies #374 & #502 for examples)
 
   
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(6) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Friday, Aug 8, 2014 14:49]

Neal, you never were on the receiving ends of my knights hooves OTB, right? :-)

Hauke
 
   
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(7) Posted by Geir Sune Tallaksen Østmoe [Friday, Aug 8, 2014 18:54]

Neal, I don't mind exchanging queens early, and the endgame is usually where I am strongest. However, I don't think the queens are too strong, and I would probably miss them if we were going to start every chess gane without them. The games I remember the most are usually those were I win (or lose) by a brilliant mating attack.

I find it much more difficult to handle the queens in a study, so I usually avoid them there. I can see how they are needed in other kinds of problems, though.
 
 
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