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Friday Puzzler -- Queen's Moves

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Friday Puzzler -- Queen's Moves

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Friday Puzzler -- Queen's Moves

Alex Y

A queen is on a standard chess board, one space away from a corner. Can you make four legal moves with the queen so that she passes through or lands on all nine of the squares in this corner?

PS, in making a diagonal move, she is considered to pass through a square only if she follows a diagonal of that square -- it doesn't count that she touches other squares in the process.


Re: Friday Puzzler -- Queen's Moves

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Re: Friday Puzzler -- Queen's Moves

Henry Higginbotham

Is she allowed to move outside the gray area?

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#3

Yes! 


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Re: Yes!

Henry Higginbotham

South, then northeast, then obvious? I suppose that's not regulation chess-speak.

Re: Friday Puzzler -- Queen's Moves

#5

Correct

Alex Y

Good job

This is like the classic "think outside the box" puzzle of connecting 9 points with four lines; just recast in chessboard guise.

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