Puzzle Time - Chess

[taiwan_girl]

Five chess pieces - a king, a queen, a bishop, a knight, and a rook - are to be placed on a chessboard.

The pieces must each occupy a square marked with a red circle, and they must be placed in such a way that two of the pieces can attack the squares marked with a red 2.

Can you work out where each of the pieces must be placed?

[jon-nyc]

Yes.

[jon-nyc]

||Bishop e3
Knight c3
Queen d8
Rook g7
King b5||

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc correct!! (Though I think the rook and queen could be reversed and the answer would still be the same)

[coxinus]

Maybe this is my favorite chess problem. Maybe the hardest mate in one that I have seen. It is just check mate in one, so It can not be so difficult... but it is!!

I do really love it because it can take more than 10 minutes to solve it.

Some years ago we made a chess book for kids and we included some satanic chess problems as this one.
Leonid Kubel is the author of this problem.

[Mik]

Coxinus? Really?

[Doctor Phibes]

It might help if you said which side is to move. Assuming white, d7-d8=Queen

[jon-nyc]

Click the link to his book.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Puzzle Time - Chess:

Click the link to his book.

You MoFo, LOL.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Puzzle Time - Chess:

@jon-nyc said in Puzzle Time - Chess:

Click the link to his book.

You MoFo, LOL.

He could have done a lot worse

[taiwan_girl]

When I saw that I started this forum thread 4 years ago, I was going to be sure that @George-K was the one who rose it from the dead. 555

[coxinus]

@Doctor-Phibes Chess problems are always white to move. If it takes about 10 minutes to solve, you can be sure it is not an easy move.

[Doctor Phibes]

@coxinus said in Puzzle Time - Chess:

@Doctor-Phibes Chess problems are always white to move.

That's racist.