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More copies of this ISBNChess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detectionby Raymond Smullyan
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Here — from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan — are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted or original?
Since these problems involve the same sort of logical reasoning that lies at the core of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Raymond Smullyan has aptly set each one within its own Holmes-Watson dialogue. In each case Holmes, by his remarkable powers of deduction, is able to demonstrate to his awed admirers precisely what must have happened, move by move, at the "scene of the crime" — the chess table. For example: what the missing piece is; what square it should be on; whether or not either side can castle. In the second half, through a series of progressively more difficult (self-contained) chess problems, Holmes, with the reader's help, solves a mystery and a double murder — perpetrated, of course, by Moriarty. And at the end of the book are ten bonus problems from Moriarty himself (four of them composed before the age of nine!). Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes is Smullyan's challenging and witty romp through the royal game. About the AuthorRaymond Smullyan is considered one of America's most inventive creators of logic puzzles. His many writings include What Is the Name of This Book?, The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Nights, The Lady or the Tiger?, This Book Needs No Title, The Tao Is Silent, and, most recently, Satan, Cantor, and Infinity. He is a professor of mathematical logic at Indiana University.
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