Friday, April 1, 2011

April Fools' Day Puzzle

In honor of April Fools' Day, here's a fairy chess puzzle for you:


The upside-down queen is a grasshopper (G). The grasshopper moves along ranks, files, and diagonals, but only by hopping over another piece at any distance from the square immediately closest. If there is no piece to hop over, it cannot move. If the square beyond a piece is occupied by a piece of the opposite color, the grasshopper can capture that piece. The grasshopper may jump over pieces of either color; the piece being jumped over is unaffected.

Can you determine how White can mate the Black king?

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