Sherlock Holmes und Schach ? Na das liegt doch irgendwie auf der Hand. Nicht wahr Watson ? - Schon die Originalausgabe aus '79 konnte überzeugen und dieser Reprint ist in jedem Fall eine Bereicherung für jeden Schachspieler. Im Prinzip muss man nur wissen, wie die Figuren ziehen, weshalb dieses Buch auch absoluten Anfängern zu empfehlen ist. Man arbeitet sich Rätsel um Rätsel durch das Buch und alles wirkt wie ein guter Krimi. Ein wirklich tolles Buch, dass das Thema Schach sehr schön in den Mittelpunkt stellt.
The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
50 Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection
by Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Dover Publications, 2012
Edition: Paperback medium
ISBN: 978-0-486-48201-9
Pages: 176
Language: English
Join the master sleuth as he and Dr. Watson examine interrupted chess matches at clubs and country homes, examining the pieces' current positions to identify previous moves.
Rather than predicting the outcome of these games, the Baker Street duo focus on past events, using the same variety of logical reasoning that unlocks the secrets to their ever-popular mysteries.
Holmes instructs Watson (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis in order to deduce on which square the white queen was captured, whether a pawn has been promoted, and which piece has been replaced by a coin.
The mysteries grow increasingly complex, culminating in a double murder perpetrated by the devious Professor Moriarty.
Philosopher and logician Raymond Smullyan brilliantly recaptures the mood of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales. Readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move; the first puzzles explain all of the concepts that arise later on.
These witty and challenging problems will captivate chess aficionados, puzzle enthusiasts, Sherlock Holmes fans, and everyone who relishes mysteries, crime stories, and tales of detection.
Reprint of the Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979 edition.
Raymond Smullyan (1919– ), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995).
Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.
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