No, the White side has a choice of strong moves to make to avoid Check and then Mate.....
Black has 3 moves to Win, but his pieces are in perilous positions....
If we begin with White Castling on Kings side, Black has to readjust all of his pieces to regain the advantage, meanwhile, White just takes and takes and takes....
For instance, some people have claimed that the square in the bottom right-hand corner of each player is black which is incorrect - and not how the picture appears to me but they do talk about an engraving so maybe they looked at this and not this or this?
Note: two similar pictures have shadows in different directions.
I can't even work out which pieces are which, however, both players have, on the back row, a piece on its own colour which means it is not an unmoved king so castling will not be possible.
I'm taking the simplest approach, going according to the setup displayed by Chas. A. Gilberg......
I'm not at all versed on the History of the Game, nor the evolution of the Pieces, so, it's possible we are seeing pieces that once existed, but now have changed.....
So, the king has one more move then he loses. I don't think that will remove the smile from the Devil's face.
No, the White side has a choice of strong moves to make to avoid Check and then Mate.....
Black has 3 moves to Win, but his pieces are in perilous positions....
If we begin with White Castling on Kings side, Black has to readjust all of his pieces to regain the advantage, meanwhile, White just takes and takes and takes....
There seems to be quite a lot written about this picture. However, there appears to be a number of pictures.
For instance, some people have claimed that the square in the bottom right-hand corner of each player is black which is incorrect - and not how the picture appears to me but they do talk about an engraving so maybe they looked at this and not this or this?
Note: two similar pictures have shadows in different directions.
I can't even work out which pieces are which, however, both players have, on the back row, a piece on its own colour which means it is not an unmoved king so castling will not be possible.
I'm taking the simplest approach, going according to the setup displayed by Chas. A. Gilberg......
I'm not at all versed on the History of the Game, nor the evolution of the Pieces, so, it's possible we are seeing pieces that once existed, but now have changed.....
Anyway, I'm not going down that rabbit hole.....