The puzzle is given to me by my friend Ananth Shrinivas .
This is the question:
Where was the queen captured?
Note: Any valid chess move is allowed. (This means u can place a queen in front of a pawn and the queen might not be captured)
Also here goes the solution:
It was captured at H6 by the pawn.
The solution here is un-consequential as the way to it is the key.
This is a puzzle in the book is "Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" by Raymond Smullyan.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Chess Puzzle
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For the non-curious mind, here is the solution:
1) For pawn A2 to move to B3 it has to be Black's Bishop running along white ( C8 Bishop)
2) For Bishop at C8 to move out pawn at D7 has to be shifted to E6. This is only possible if White Knight is taken there.
3) So this leaves to options , either the Black knight would have taken the queen or its the pawn at G7.
4) Since there is a movement from the pawn at G7 and the white's other knight is still alive, the only possible capture (if at-all )
is the queen. This proves beyond doubt , that the capture of the queen is only possible on H6. QED
tell me what about the white bishops, which blocks the movement of white queen getting out of the white soldier's defense ? to assume white bishops being attacked by black knight, but 2 black knight still exists fine.
This is impossible..
Can you explain how the white bishops captured??
- Sannabasavana Gowd
@Sanna,
Black Horses(or knight) capture the bishop.
@Arvind,
Queen can move out with the leftmost white pawn being displaced from its native position.
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