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Playing with a chess cipher

Alice and Bob both love encryption, and Alice loves to play chess. Unfortunately, Bob isn't very good at chess, so he doesn't think it's very fair to have to play the game for real. So instead of ...
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How to connect a chessboard and a cipher into puzzle?

Let's say you have (a) a chessboard with figures and (b) a text from a book. The figures configuration is the Cardan grille, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardan_grille When you put the chessboard ...
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A Wacky, Wacky Chessboard (That Makes No Sense)

So yesterday I found this in the mail. A chessboard. But on the squares, things were written. Plaintext version: ...
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A chess game with odd moves?

A friend and I like to play chess regularly. Like me, he is a lover of a good puzzle, which is what drew us to the game. The thrill of finding a checkmate in a board riddled with pieces cannot be ...
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