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I was reading László Polgár's excellent book Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games and ran across #1071, White to move and mate in 2... Read More...

In his post "A chess problem begging for a solution", Michael Kaplan quotes Barbara Hambly's Star Trek novel Ishmael. In the quoted scene, Spock (AKA Ishmael) plays a couple of chess games against a stranger - rather unusual chess games. The problem alluded to is to determine the moves of the games given certain information. Read More...

Sam Loyd's "Organ Pipes" mate-in-two stands up well in the lexicon of chess problems, but there's a minor technical flaw. Read More...