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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Knight Squadrons
Squadron - from Italian squadrone, which is augmentative of squadra - “battalion" or… literally "square”. It can be translated as a "body of soldiers drawn up in a square”. No wonder the first 4 lette...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Knights' Stone Cross
It is not that hard to solve this compact chess puzzle in 6 knight moves. You can give it a try and see yourself first. The harder challenge, though, is to solve it in just FIVE moves. Will you have e...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Four Knights Guarini's Problem
Guarini's Problem is one of the first recreational chess problems to be posed. It is claimed to be published by mathematician Paolo Guarini di Forli in 1512, hence attribution.
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Knight’s Maneuvers
Suppose you've heard the expression Knight's Move. Precisely in the original sense - a cunning, not obvious move. How does a knight move in chess? It is the unique way of walking that distinguishes th...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
The Knight Maze
Solving this Knight Maze is a step into a mysterious labyrinth. Two white and two black knights must find the right path and get out of the labyrinth. The task of the logical chess puzzle is to swap t...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Knights and Fish
Shaping the chess board into the stylized FISH makes this puzzle intriguing. The nature of the chess knight's move is so elusive, that though the board seems to be tightly packed in its initial positi...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Knights in the Castle
If we draw an imaginary horizontal line exactly through the middle of the board, the top half would remind the castle's battlement, while the bottom one - its reflection in the surrounding moat's wate...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
C-Slide Knights
C-SLIDE-KNIGHTS chess puzzle is the first step in the development of combinational vision and analysis, which is essential for finding opponent's mistakes and determining solutions in typical position...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
X-Steeplechase
X-STEEPLECHASE is an interesting and unusual chess puzzle that is rather challenging despite looking simple art first sight. The chess problem is based on the old problem of finding a series of winnin...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Z-Steeplechase
Z-STEEPLECHASE is an algorithmic chess problem with a positional exchange of two opposite squads, consisting of 3 chess knights each. The puzzle resembles the famous Six Knights Guarini's Problem - th...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
U-Steeplechase
U-STEEPLECHASE is a chess puzzle with an unusual board in the form of the letter U. While all six knights are gathered in the lower part of the letter, the two vertical parts above them will be the mo...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Horses by the Pond
Horses by the Pond is an interesting "knight's move" chess puzzle that can be played online in your browser. A logic board game using a custom 9x6 chessboard with a pond in the middle, three pieces of...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Arctic Knights
Reminding a polar igloo, or snow hut, hence the title's aspiration*, the board to this chess problem has quite a bit of free cells. Once you see some key moves, you'll crack the entire solution. Utili...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
G-Knights Exchange
Single-tiled paths as a chessboard is always a special type of boards for chess problems. This is one of it. Moreover, at 3 junctions the parts of the board are connected diagonally only. The four isl...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Eight Knights in the Seven
SEVEN - the elegant shape of the board for this challenge. EIGHT - the number of chess figures on it. Combined they create rather a difficult and tightly-packed chess knight puzzle. Now the task is to...
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Knights 4:4
Cells11
Moves22
NEWDec 8
Y-Steeplechase
Steeplechase - not an accidental key phrase for a series of such knight-exchange chess puzzles like this one. It is a chess puzzle for developing mental calculation skills. You don't need to know how ...