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Lionel Vidal    (2007-02-12 11:20:57)
White missing pieces

Let's look at the missing white men. The only missing black pawn is the h-pawn, that has promoted to produce the third black rook.
It could not have promoted at g1 (because the rook would have been trapped). Therefore it must have made captures on the g-file, the f-file and at e1.
Another pawn capture took place at b6 or b5 and the WRh1 was taken at g1 or h1.
This is all for the 5 missing white men!
Next step is: have you an idea to disentangle the top left corner?




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