Description
| Product ID: | 9780486482019 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Dover Recreational Math |
| Title: | Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes |
| Subtitle: | Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection |
| Authors: | Author: Raymond M. Smullyan |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Board games: Chess, Chess |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Fifty 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Publisher Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-03-30 |