Puzzle Time - Chess
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wrote on 26 Nov 2020, 03:55 last edited by 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?
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wrote on 26 Nov 2020, 04:36 last edited by
Yes.
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wrote on 26 Nov 2020, 04:43 last edited by
||Bishop e3
Knight c3
Queen d8
Rook g7
King b5|| -
wrote on 27 Nov 2020, 01:44 last edited by
@jon-nyc correct!! (Though I think the rook and queen could be reversed and the answer would still be the same)
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wrote on 14 May 2024, 18:51 last edited by coxinus 6 May 2024, 06:56
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. -
wrote on 14 May 2024, 21:02 last edited by
Coxinus? Really?
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wrote on 14 May 2024, 21:50 last edited by
It might help if you said which side is to move. Assuming white, d7-d8=Queen
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wrote on 14 May 2024, 21:55 last edited by
Click the link to his book.
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wrote on 14 May 2024, 21:59 last edited by
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wrote on 14 May 2024, 22:07 last edited by
@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
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wrote on 15 May 2024, 01:16 last edited by
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
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It might help if you said which side is to move. Assuming white, d7-d8=Queen
wrote on 5 Jun 2024, 06:57 last edited by coxinus 6 May 2024, 07:00@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.
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@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.
wrote on 5 Jun 2024, 10:11 last edited by Doctor Phibes 6 May 2024, 10:11@coxinus said in Puzzle Time - Chess:
@Doctor-Phibes Chess problems are always white to move.
That's racist.