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msh210
Dec 1, 2010
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This puzzle, and solution, appeared in Raymund Allen, "A Happy Solution", The Strand Magazine, 1916, republished in Dorothy L. Sayers, editor, The Omnibus of Crime, 1929.

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Chess_Abolisher
Dec 2, 2010
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Nice. I was thinking Bb3 Nxb3 Qxb3 xb3 and then the same check mate.

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msh210
Dec 2, 2010
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#3

Incidentally, in case you're wondering about the unlikelihood of having a board in this state (retrograde analysis will show a lot of weird things), yes, that's part of the story.  (It's a mystery story, and the detective's solution depends on his doing a retrograde analysis of this board.)