The bishop and knight checkmate on a large chessboard

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author Wästlund, Johan
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contents In 1983 the chess periodical EG published a summary of a letter from Julius Telesin outlining how a king, a bishop and a knight can checkmate a lonely king on an arbitrarily large chessboard. The Telesin checkmating procedure doesn't seem to be widely known, and the published account left out a number of details. We describe the method precisely and show that it works against every defense. We also discuss the open question of the asymptotics of the largest distance to mate on a large square board.
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spellingShingle The bishop and knight checkmate on a large chessboard
Wästlund, Johan
Combinatorics
91A46
In 1983 the chess periodical EG published a summary of a letter from Julius Telesin outlining how a king, a bishop and a knight can checkmate a lonely king on an arbitrarily large chessboard. The Telesin checkmating procedure doesn't seem to be widely known, and the published account left out a number of details. We describe the method precisely and show that it works against every defense. We also discuss the open question of the asymptotics of the largest distance to mate on a large square board.
title The bishop and knight checkmate on a large chessboard
topic Combinatorics
91A46
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04421