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1 - 2# b) 2# circe

Caillaud, M.
1982

white Kh6 Pg6g5d2 Qh5 Sf1b5 Rb1 black Se4f3 Rd4 Bc3 Pb2c4d3f2 Ke2
#2(8+9)
b) Circe
a captured piece is reborn on its original square if it is free.

Solution

 

2 - 24# with Locusts and Grasshoppers

Seret, JL.
1984, 2017 version

white Kf8 Sb4 WLb6 BHc5 Gh3h2 LBg1 black BLd7e8g8h8g7 Ka8 Ph4
#24(7+6)
🨊b6, 🨐d7, e8, g8, h8, g7: Locusts
🨡c5: Bishop-grasshopper
🨟h3, h2: Grasshoppers
🨌g1: Bishop-Locust
The Locust is a curious animal, which can only move by eating!
It plays like a but swallows the sautoir, necessarily of the opposite colour.
It is a Bishop-Grasshopper on c5 and a Bishop-Locust on g1.

Solution

 

3 - selfmate 19# circe

Rehm, HP & Smits G
1984

white Sa1 Pa2c7c5g4 Rb6d2 Kc6 Bh3c1 Qg2 black Pa3e2 Sh8 Bh1 Ke1
s#19(11+5)
Solution

 

 

4 - 2# with Empress

Keeble, J.
1888

white EMa4 Bb5h8 Sb7 Kf7 Pd6g3c2 black Sa6c8 Pg5f5e3c5 Bd2 Kd5
#2(8+8)
🨍a4: Empress
Accumulates the Rook and Knight's march
Solution

 

5 - h#2,5 3 solutions with Empress and Princess

Packa, L & Klemanic E
2015

white Pa7 Bh6 Kd4 black EMa5 Pa6e6e4d2f2g2 Kh4 PRh7
h#2.5 3sol(3+9)
🨓a5: Empress
🨓h7: Princess
Accumulates the Bishop's and Knight's walk
Solution

 

6 - 2# Argentine chess

Loustau, JM.
2017

white WSd5e6f2 Qh6 Kh8 black BSh1 Ra6f6 Ph7f5e4 Kb1 Bg8 FAh2
#2 argentine chess(5+9)
🨊d5, e6, f2, 🨐h1: Señora
🨑h2: Faro
a piece plays normally when it captures
but needs a sautoir to play a move that is not a capture (which can go well beyond the square following the sautoir).

Solution

 

7 - s#3 maximum

Bakke, NA.
1983

white Rb6 Pe7f7d3 Kh4 Se1 black Ka5 Bc5 Pg7h5g4f4f2d2 Sg8 Rh7f1 Qh6
s#3 Maximum(9+7)
black is required to play the geometrically longest legal moves

Solution

 

8 - h#2 2 sol back-to-back

Tritten, P.
2018

white Pf2 black Kd4 Se5 Qc2
h#2 back-to-back 2sol.(1+3)
back-to-back two opposites "back-to-back" units swap ways of moving

Solution

 

9 - h#4 masand b) ♝e2 on f3

Luce, S.
2013

white Kd2 black Kd4 Be2f2 Rg2
h#4 Masand(1+4)
b) ♝e2-->f3
A unit that checks causes all units it observes to change colour (except kings)

Solution

 

 

10 - h#4 take & make

Taylor, St
2018

white Pa4a3a2c2 Kb1 Ra1 black Bc1 Pc3 Ka5
h#4 Take&Make(6+3)
b) ♗a1
After a capture, the capturing piece must pay tribute to the captured piece
by immediately making a non-capture move with the march of the captured piece

Solution

 

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