The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection
, by Smullyan, Raymond M.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780486482019 | 0486482014
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/17/2012
Here are 50 elegant, witty chess problems concerned with deducing events in a game's past. In the first half, Holmes instructs Watson in the intricacies of retrograde analysis while the two examine interrupted games. The second half features increasingly difficult self-contained chess mysteries, including a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty.