Kempelen's historic chess puzzle: Place five pieces to attack every square
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Summary
This article describes a historical chess puzzle created by Kempelen, inventor of the famous "Mechanical Chess Player" (The Turk). The puzzle challenges the reader to place four black queens and one black bishop on a chessboard so that every square is under attack, leaving no safe square for a white king. It is presented as one of the most difficult problems from over a hundred years ago.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledMore than a hundred years ago, Kempelen, with his famous 'Mechanical Chess Player,' not only defeated the strongest chess players who dared challenge him, but also liked to create chess problems that frustrated the greatest minds of the time.
This is one of the most difficult among those problems.
The task is to place four black queens and one black bishop on the chessboard so that there is no square not under their attack.
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