leiby@masscomp.UUCP (Mike Leibensperger) (11/27/85)
If you are a chess player, there is an interesting set of rather
non-traditional chess problems called _The_Chess_Mysteries_of_
_Sherlock_Holmes, by Raymond Smullyan, a professor of mathematical
logic at SUNY Buffalo. It's a lot of fun!
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{decvax,ihnp4,tektronix}!masscomp!leibycolonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (12/01/85)
> If you are a chess player, there is an interesting set of rather > non-traditional chess problems called _The_Chess_Mysteries_of_ > _Sherlock_Holmes, by Raymond Smullyan, a professor of mathematical > logic at SUNY Buffalo. It's a lot of fun! Not here, but at Lehman College, CUNY. Most of the problems involve retrograde analysis. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva
msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (12/03/85)
Mike Leibensperger (leiby@masscomp.UUCP) writes: > If you are a chess player, there is an interesting set of rather > non-traditional chess problems called _The_Chess_Mysteries_of_ > _Sherlock_Holmes, by Raymond Smullyan, ... Non-traditional indeed. I enjoyed these, but the reason is that they don't really demand much chess skill, only logical skill and a knowledge of the moves. The problems tend to be of this form: "Given that in the indicated position none of the knights have moved, prove that it is White's move" or "...prove that White cannot castle". Probably not the sort of thing that net.games.chess readers will really go for. (I've added a cross-posting to net.puzzle which I think is appropriate.) Also, I found about 10 bugs in the book. However, if there has been a new edition since I got it, things could have improved. Mark Brader