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Sherlock Holmes Visits the Chameleon Chess Club: Further Adventures in Retrograde Chess Analysis

244 pages presenting 70 problems with solutions . Best viewed on a large screen Foreword by Raymond Smullyan , an American mathematician and a pioneer of retrograde chess analysis: This is a marvelous book of chess problems in what is known as retrograde analysis in which the solutions involve deducing what must have taken place in the past of the game. These intriguing problems have much the flavor of detective stories. This present volume is a perfect sequel to my Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes and Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights ; I cannot imagine a better one! Although the author calls it a “sequel,” it can be read independently of my two volumes, since enough introductory material has been provided. In this fascinating book, the author has definitely broken new ground. He has varied and advanced many of my themes of retrograde analysis to a remarkable degree. For example, as complementary to my monochromatic problems, in which no piece ever moves from a square of one color to a square of a different color, the author has introduced heterochromatic problems, in which it is given that on each move, the piece always goes from a square of one color to a square of a diff

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