Re: [math-fun] Chess Problem (H Baker)

It would be relatively easy to hack a chess program to play this variant, but my intuition is that it would not be solvable with only the rules change. There are a virtually infinite number of ways a game of chess can proceed without captures and still avoiding the repetition and stalling rules. A more fruitful but more difficult task would be to set up a backtracking search for a successful massacre using arbitrarily placed pieces, then try to demonstrate that the starting position is reachable with legal play.