In the position below, how can White give the fastest checkmate? (Assume both players are moving optimally.)
The target square of the first move can be represented as a coordinate , where the bottom left corner is at . Input the product of and as your answer.
In our extraordinary game,
Which piece captured the knight?
It's White turn to move, find the minimum number of moves for White to move to win the game.
Note that both players played optimally and that Black moves down (pawn) and that Black intends to stay in the game for as long as possible.
In the following position, the color of each piece is unknown (each piece could either be white or black), but it is known that the position arose from a series of legal moves, starting at the usual starting position.
Before the last move was made, Black had pieces worth points (on the scale Queen = 9, Rook = 5, Bishop = Knight = 3, Pawn = 1, King = 0). What is the product of and ?
Consider the positional set up of a game. It is white's turn to move. White can checkmate black in just two moves, can you find the first move to force a checkmate?
If the first move can be written as , where are the coordinates (according to how it is marked above) of the moved piece's initial position and are the coordinates of the position of the piece after the move, evaluate