From: Tony Salvaggione <SalvaAC <at> AOL <dot> COM>
Date: 16 apr 1996
Subject: No Subject

ing?

wK  wS  bR

--     --     --

bG   --    --

Held, bP

The silver can't take because of the pin, and the king can't take because of
the gold. King can't flee also because of gold.  The later example


wK  wS  bR

--    wG    --

bG  --       --

--     bN   --

held bP

Of course is a standard type of sequence:  P'9b, Gx9b; Nx9b+mate

It seems that the first example is one of an illegal mate, yes?