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This article covers computer software designed to solve, or assist people in creating or solving, chess problems – puzzles in which pieces are laid out as in a game of chess, and may at times be based upon real games of chess that have been played and recorded, but whose aim is to challenge the problemist to find a solution to the posed situation, within the rules of chess, rather than to ...
^n(~1/2) gNN: Fairy Chess problems [1] Move to next square beyond any piece in lines of knight moves. Also known as Knight-line-hopper: O: Okapi: OK ~ 1/2, ~ 2/3: NZ = NJ: Fairy Chess problems: Combination of Knight and Zebra. Invented by Pierre Monréal (1965). Old Monkey: 1X, 1< FbW: Maka dai dai shogi and other large Shōgi variants ...
A mathematical chess problem is a mathematical problem which is formulated using a chessboard and chess pieces. These problems belong to recreational mathematics. The most well-known problems of this kind are the eight queens puzzle and the knight's tour problem, which have connection to graph theory and combinatorics. Many famous ...
An altered piece used in fairy chess is known as a fairy chess piece. The term fairy chess was introduced by Henry Tate in 1914. Thomas R. Dawson (1889–1951), the "father of fairy chess", [1] invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He was also problem editor of Fairy Chess Review (1930–1951).
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A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by the composer using chess pieces on a chess board, which presents the solver with a particular task.For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two moves against any possible defence.