Questions tagged [chess]
A puzzle related to chess, a two-player board game with white and black pieces of varying ranks.
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The Royal Relay on a Chessfield
Playable Version
In the ancient Kingdom of Gridoria, a mysterious curse has frozen the entire realm: every citizen, every castle, every mountain.
The royal court's only hope lies in a sacred Relay ...
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The Drunken Bishopawn’s Staggering Tour
Here’s an original version of the puzzle: this question.
Once upon a time, there was a Bishopawn: a hybrid chess piece that moves like a bishop (freely on diagonals) and, like a pawn, could step one ...
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Shortest tour from a Bishopawn
A Bishopawn is here defined as a Bishop that can also advance one square, just like a Pawn. That means the Bishopawn can change its square color and visit all the squares!
What is the minimum number ...
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Mate in two (4 pawns clumped together)
White to move and mate in two:
FEN:
B7/3pp1K1/3Pp3/4k3/1P1N4/7P/3P4/B7 w - - 0 1
Attribution:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/study-of-the-month-2021-07#
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Nightriders ("long" knights) on a large chessboard
You can attack this question in a clever, in a general or in a bonus way.
Source is a chess problem of mine (yep, they publish math chess problems in the SCHWALBE, they have a whole category and mine ...
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Chess Heroics (Circle geometry)
The White Rook is boasting again.
"Fear me, puny Blacks! I came a long way from my home to punish you all!
First I killed a laughable Pawn. Then I made a right turn and a longer
move, and a ...
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Minimum Crossed Knight Chess Tour
The Knight's Tour is a famous sequence of moves in a Chessboard.
We now search for a Knight Tour such that the number of intersections drawn by the tour is minimal.
Here is a valid Knight tour given ...
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Peaceful Weighted Sudoku Chess Grid
To illustrate a valid solution, here is a first non-optimized at all solution of value 79
Let us fill a Peaceful Weighted Sudoku Grid with the maximum value with Chess pieces with the following rules:...
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Help me win F1 movie tickets!
My roommate Max changed the locks in our dorm, and I need to find out the password. Max also made a bet that if I get the 2 digit code on my first try I would get tickets to the new F1 movie!!
I saw a ...
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Chess - Amazons - Magnus Carlen vs Gukesh 2025 Norway
Parts of this puzzle are taken from this nice puzzle of @Will.Octagon.Gibson.
An Amazon is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight.
In this famous game at Norway in 2025, ...
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What is the maximum number of Amazons that can be placed on a 5x5 chessboard so that no piece attacks another?
An Amazon is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight.
What is the maximum number of Amazons that can be placed on a 5x5 chessboard so that no piece attacks another?
Attribution:
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Can 3 Nightriders checkmate a lone King (with help of friendly King) on an infinite chess board?
Nightrider, or NN, is a fairy chess piece similar to the knight, but it can continue leaping in the same direction in one move while the touched fields are empty (like the bishop). It is stronger than ...
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What were the last 15 single moves?
Here is a new retrograde analysis puzzle, once more a "simple" king and pawn endgame! The length of the task may sound a bit daunting at first, but I think this one should not be too hard to ...
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What happened to the missing pieces?
Once more, here is a new retrograde chess puzzle! This one might have turned out a bit tricky, so if you like a challenge, please have a go! :)
In the game leading up to the position below, both ...
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Will we be able to solve the Proca retractor?
A. -16 & #1 Proca retractor composer: Joaquim Crusats, Die Schwalbe 330 12/2024 (version by S.Nikhto) INCORRECT
White and black take turns retracting moves (white starts) and after white retracts ...
