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Puzzle Time - Chess

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  • taiwan_girlT Offline
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    taiwan_girl
    wrote on last edited by taiwan_girl
    #1

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    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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      jon-nyc
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      #2

      Yes.

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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        ||Bishop e3
        Knight c3
        Queen d8
        Rook g7
        King b5||

        Only non-witches get due process.

        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

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

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          #4

          @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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            coxinus
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            #5

            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!!
            difficult chess problem.jpg
            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.

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              Mik
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              #6

              Coxinus? Really?

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                Doctor Phibes
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                #7

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

                I was only joking

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                  jon-nyc
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                  #8

                  Click the link to his book.

                  😛

                  Only non-witches get due process.

                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    Click the link to his book.

                    😛

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                    @jon-nyc said in Puzzle Time - Chess:

                    Click the link to his book.

                    😛

                    You MoFo, LOL.

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    • George KG George K

                      @jon-nyc said in Puzzle Time - Chess:

                      Click the link to his book.

                      😛

                      You MoFo, LOL.

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                      Doctor Phibes
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                      #10

                      @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

                      I was only joking

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                        taiwan_girl
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                        #11

                        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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                        • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

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

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                          coxinus
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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.

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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.

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                            @coxinus said in Puzzle Time - Chess:

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

                            That's racist.

                            I was only joking

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