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  Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection (Dover Recreational Math) (Paperback) By (author) Raymond M. Smullyan

  

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  Short Description for Chess Mysteries of Sherlock HolmesFifty elegant, witty problems involve deducing events in a game's past. Holmes instructs Watson in the intricacies of retrograde analysis in a series of increasingly complex mysteries. Readers need only know how chess pieces move.
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  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
  • Published: 30 March 2012
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Mathematical Logic
  • ISBN 13: 9780486482019 ISBN 10: 0486482014
  • Sales rank: 81,305

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• Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.