Featured Puzzle: Detective Chess #1
I first saw a Detective Chess puzzle about a year ago, and the concept intrigued me. Invented by Jaime Poniachik in the late 1970s or early 80s, and received notoriety in Martin Gardner’s Puzzles from Other Worlds, published in 1981. Today is International Chess Day, so this seemed an appropriate puzzle. Can you figure out which chess pieces goes where?
King 
Queen 
Bishop 
Knight 
Rook
- The highlighted squares show the five positions of the pieces.
- Numbers on other squares indicate how many pieces threaten that position.
- Pieces move under normal chess rules.
- Remember, a piece cannot move through another piece to attack.
Watch for a future Detective Chess Solving Guide.
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Congratulations! You found all the pieces!
