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Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book


More than a hundred years ago, Kempelen, with his famous “Mechanical Chess Player,” not only defeated the strongest chess players who dared challenge him, but also liked to create chess problems that frustrated the greatest minds of the time. This is one of the most difficult among those problems.

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