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msh210

Dec 1, 2010

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.

Chess_Abolisher

Dec 2, 2010

Nice. I was thinking Bb3 Nxb3 Qxb3 xb3 and then the same check mate.

msh210

Dec 2, 2010

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.)