John D. Cook7/13/2025

All pieces on a small chessboard

John
Here’s another little chess puzzle by Martin Gardner, taken from this paper. The task is to place all the pieces—king, queen, two bishops, two knights, and two rooks—on a 6 × 5 chessboard, with the requirement that the two bishops be on opposite colored squares and no piece is attacking another. Here is a solution. The post All pieces on a small chessboard first appeared on John D. Cook .