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Can you checkmate a king you can't see?
Motivation
If you play bullet chess with time management skills as poor as mine, you often end up in endgame situations that require delivering checkmate by playing several premoves in a row. For ...
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Who wins in this knight-placement game?
Two players take turns placing knights on the squares of a standard 8x8 chessboard, so that no knight can take another. The player who is unable to do this loses. Which player has a winning strategy ...
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White (king and 2 bishops) vs Black (king and 1 knight). White to play and mate in 2
White to play and mate in 2.
Attribution: Glen Ferri
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Police and Thieves
I played this game when I was young, but cannot find it online. It is played on a checkers board (e.g. the black squares of a chess board) between two players P and T. The game goes as follows:
P ...
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Playing with one Queen on a chessboard
Alice and Bob play a special chess game with alternate moves. Alics starts with an empty chessboard and puts a Queen at a field in the first row (A8-H8) or the right column (H1-H8). Now Bob is moving ...
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Crazy queen in checkers
Checkers
Checkers, also called draughts, is an interesting game. all pieces are placed on black tile and are all pawns at the start. When a pawn reach the final line, a powerful piece is created: the ...
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The Monster and the Chessboard [duplicate]
You have a standard checkerboard with 64 squares and a coin in each square, randomly facing heads or tails up. There is an evil monster in the room with you and he arbitrarily selects some square and ...
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16 pawns on a chess board with no three collinear: how do I go about solving this?
Here's a problem that was posed to me but I haven't seen anything about it anywhere online! I'm beginning to wonder if I'm just getting played!
You have a chessboard and sixteen pawns. The puzzle is ...
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A lonely pawn on the chessboard
Alice and Bob and the referee Conny play the following game with a pawn on a standard $8\times8$ chessboard:
In the beginning, Conny places the pawn into the center of a randomly chosen square. All $...
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A prime number game
Alice and Bob play the following game on a $9\times11$ chessboard.
First Alice divides the chessboard into $33$ smaller rectangles of
dimensions $1\times3$ and $3\times1$.
Then Bob labels each of ...
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The knight's game
Alice and Bob play the following game on a standard 8 by 8 chessboard.
In the very beginning, Alice picks a square on the chessboard and places a knight on this square.
Then Bob and Alice alternate ...
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Black wants to go first!
Billy and Matthew decide to play a game of Chess. They live far away, so they decide to do it online.
Matthew wants to play first, but the game randomly gave him the color black (who goes second.)
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Lions and Zebras on a Chess Board
The black knight is our lion chasing 8 white bishop zebras which can't capture. Can the zebras evade the lion forever, if team zebra positions all the pieces and has the first turn?
Rules:
The game ...
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Checkers Against The King
The king has invented a new game called King's Checkers. The rules are simple, it's exactly like regular Checkers, the only difference? The king plays first and all his pieces are automatically "king",...
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Checkers with the devil
After however much inordinate time passed for the tree-pruning game to finish, you ended up winning, and Satan was infuriated. He was sure he'd come up with a game keep you in hell.
But once again, ...
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2 bishops versus a lone king
There are 4 pieces on the board, the white and black kings, as well as 2 white bishops (on differently colored squares).
The only way a stalemate occurs is if the black king is not in check, but ...
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Coin flipping game
An $8\times8$ checkerboard is filled with two-sided coins (that are blue on one side and red on the other side).
The following picture shows three examples of a cross (multiplication sign):
the five ...
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Block the snake
On a $9\times10$ checkerboard with $90$ squares, a game proceeds as follows:
First, you place $x$ rocks on the board. Each rock occupies a single square. No rock may touch the edge of the ...
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Placing dominoes on a 3x100 checkerboard
Alice and Bob play a game by alternately placing dominoes on a $3\times100$ checkerboard (3 rows, 100 columns). Alice has the first move.
A move of Alice consists in placing a $1\times2$ (horizontal) ...
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Capture The Runaway Mouse
Say you have a grid of 16x16 squares. Label them A through P and 1 through 16.
Now say that at H8 there's a mouse that moves at 1 slot every turn. Also, you get to block a tile every turn.
Say the ...
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