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New Puzzle Theme: Blind Swine inspired mating pattern #16955

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Dirkster99 opened this issue Feb 10, 2025 · 0 comments
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New Puzzle Theme: Blind Swine inspired mating pattern #16955

Dirkster99 opened this issue Feb 10, 2025 · 0 comments
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Dirkster99 commented Feb 10, 2025

I have collected mating patterns that are based on the Blind Swine mating pattern using a Python script as described here.

The mates that I collected are not limited to the 7th rank. That is, I deemed every final mating position as valid, where 2 rooks are next to each other mating a king on the side of the battery. Therefore, the mating pattern is, strictly speaking, not a blind swine, but should still be interesting for us, as they document so many other related possibilities of using two rooks, next to each other, to mate the king. And I would also argue that collecting only positions that end on the 7th rank would probably yield a very small number of positions and would be rather too easy to solve, and therefore, quit boring.

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Therefore, the description of the puzzle theme should probably refer to the blind swine, but clarify that it also includes other very similar patterns, as well:

"The blind swine puzzle theme is based on the pattern coined by Polish master Dawid Janowski, referring to coupled rooks on a player's 7th rank as swine. This puzzle theme includes other mates, involving two rooks next to each other, not necessarily on the 7th rank, but still mating the king."

I would suggest either of these icons:
https://game-icons.net/1x1/skoll/pig.html
https://game-icons.net/1x1/skoll/sight-disabled.html

Here is the Excel file containing the references to the reviewed puzzles that should be tagged:
lichess_db_blind_swine_v2.xlsx

The Python code found 4888 samples and I reviewed them all finding no errors. So, the Google CoLab parser is stable.

Here is a slightly edit icon suggestion:
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@Dirkster99 Dirkster99 changed the title New Puzzle Theme: Blind Swine inspired matting pattern New Puzzle Theme: Blind Swine inspired mating pattern Feb 11, 2025
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