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		teo_zero on Sept 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to store a chess position in 26 bytes using bi... Do you perhaps mean that there was no white king?

LorenPechtel on Sept 16, 2023 [–]

No black king--in other words, you don't know where the black king is since it must exist. The puzzle was to find the move that would mate the king no matter what square it was in.

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