Talk:Joke chess problem

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I just composed this article, in response to an reference to joke chess problem on the grotesque (chess) page. If anyone wants to improve the formatting or the introduction, or add more examples, please do so! 71.245.237.11 02:42, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm so glad that somebody started this! Your examples are great, but I must admit that I had something a bit different in mind when I made that reference in the grotesque article: the sort of problem which doesn't so much exploit ambiguities in the rules as radically rewrite them; [1] is an example of the sort of thing I'm talking about (though I probably wouldn't use this example in the article since I don't know how to explain away the orthodox solution 1.Qf4+ Kd5 2.Qd4#). When such problems are published, they usually carry the stipulation "Joke" as well as the "mate in two" or whatever (not to do this would be unfair to the solver). Maybe I'll get round to adding some examples of this sort of thing one day; if anybody else wants to do it in the meantime, that'd be great, of course. --Camembert 15:40, 22 August 2006 (UTC)