Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection

Raymond M Smullyan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dover Publications Inc.

Published:30th Mar '12

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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.

ISBN: 9780486482019

Dimensions: 216mm x 136mm x 10mm

Weight: 235g

192 pages