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Puzzle Playground - Chess 'n' Checkers Puzzles (244 words) |
 | Foxes and Geese is another popular version of this chess fl and white knights exchange puzzle that has to be completed in fewest possible moves. |
| A minimax problem: find the maximum and the minimum number of attacked vacant cells of a standard chessboard when there are only two chess queens on it. |
| A chess knight wants to travel around a 6x6 board making the longest possible tour without self-crossings of his route. |
| "There is a Certain Amount of Humor in Checkers" (397 words) |
| Checkers in America is a kind of Norman Rockwell icon, a symbol of good-natured competition and wholesome amusement. |
| Because nearly everyone knows how to play, checkers is often viewed as a pastime for old men and children, on a par with tick-tack-toe or Go Fish. |
| Games resembling checkers were popular as long ago as 1600 B.C. At Thebes, a wall painting apparently showed Ramses III playing an early form of checkers with a lady. |
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