6 Mar
2011
6 Mar
'11
4:42 p.m.
If you like puzzles of this type you should definitely read Smullyan's brilliant collections _The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights_ and _The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes_. If you search the web for smullyan chess you'll find a few samples lurking around. --Joshua Zucker On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Richard Guy <rkg@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
Recently Noam Elkies showed me the following cute chess problem. I don't know if it is original with him.
Normal starting position for Chess. Remove Black's King's Knight, and White's King's Knight and King's and Queen's pawns. White has just played her 5th move in a normal play of Chess. What was it? R.