Author: Michael Vox
Date: 05:33:01 06/15/03
In the 1930s one major distillery, Macdonald & Muir, used chess as the main component in the promotion of their Highland Queen scotch whisky. They produced a series of advertizements with the theme 'The Queen Dominates' published in "The Illustrated London News" - 1935. John Rice, editor of "The Problemist" has identified this problem as first appearing in the Westminster Papers, 1871. Composed by Patrick T. Duffy, it is believed to be the first skittles problem. John Rice also cautions that the problem is sound, apart from a few duals in a couple of lines. May I suggest you first try the puzzle for a minute yourself. My Fritz 7 program solves the puzzle instantaneously. A very interesting puzzle, it should be called pin-wheel :) 8/8/8/2ppp3/2pkp3/2ppp3/7K/5N1Q w - - 0 1
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