How Do You Solve A Problem Like On Here ?...
A chess wordsearch provided a 2024 Christmas puzzle with a prize for someone who could find three former World champions; 3 teams in the Manchester League and 3 possible moves during a game of chess. The solution and winner are on our Answers page.
The BBC television programme "Pointless" included the following chess-based question ...
100 people were asked to name four chess openings. Of the six names shown below, four are actual openings - two of which were not mentioned by the public (ie "Pointless") - while two are false.
Therefore, do you know which four are openings - and which two of those were "Pointless" - and which two names are not openings ?
Bird's Opening, Taylor's Joy, Evans Gambit,
Nickel Defence, Monkey's Bum, Scotch Game
The answers can be seen via the link at the top of this page.
KNIGHT TOUR
A chess knight is on square 1 and must reach square 100 by going to every other square on the board in numerical order only once.
Some numbers oare already shown while the knight must move as in a normal chess game (ie 2 forward / 1 side or 1 forward / 2 side).
WHO'S WHO ???
Below are the names of several 3Cs' members - but not as you know them.
All the correct names of the anagrams can be found on the 3Cs' website - how many can you identify ?
CARBON MELTER, ALIEN DEAL, LEZ HAS HOT CURRY,
NAVY SODA, A HUSHED LLAMA, THE JENNY LOB
DEAR ROAD CREW, HOME JANITOR, MAINLINE,
JACKDAWS SNORED, MR JUDD MOANED, KAI LIKES JAMS
HATING TENANTS, OMIT NORTH, NEAR KABUL,
GIVE CLIP IN, JOCK LEANS IN, HONDA HARM MOMMA,
HID PLASMA, HARLEM JAM LASS, BALI SEA BAND,
ANT ON A WALL, HAUL IN A MINK, THE CAMEL BE EVIL,
SAM HAD BABE, THONGED PERSON, GLEN LOANS OX,
HANNA SHOT ALAN, RACES ONE ROVER, HEART IN DANGER,
HUMBLE TICKLER, SHANTY TOON, HE HELD ALMA,
MOVED A HANDBAG, DOROTHY ANN, OATS AND HAM,
ATTACKS RULER, NOT THY RASCALS, KEEN IVY,
BITSY VERGE, MOTOR FOR CLARK, GP NEIL KELLY,
ELLE HAD HAM A NEW SAILOR, NOSH GRANOLAS,
NINJA EARTH MOLL SEALED JAM, LAY ME A MAZE.
CHAINS ON MODS ANN HAS AVON HATS INSURE ANIMALS
NEW BONNET MR IBIZA HAIR AID ZAK BY COKE
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.... and which city is an anagram of "Three Cs" ?
The solutions can be seen in the "Answers" section via the drop-down box of this "Puzzle Board" page.
The BBC television programme "Pointless" included the following chess-based question on 17 January 2023 ...
100 people were asked to name chess Grandmasters. Of the following six names, four are Grandmasters - two of whom were not mentioned by the public (ie "Pointless") - while two names are not Grandmasters.
Therefore, do you know which 2 of the four chess Grandmasters were "Pointless" and which 2 names are not Grandmasters ?
Brandon Jacobson, Florence Vassy, Magnus Carlsen,
Nigel Short, Mikhail Tal, Walter Tevis
2023 CHRISTMAS PUZZLE
The 3Cs' website set a puzzle for our young players to occupy themselves during the 2023 Christmas period.
They were asked to place 8 queens on a chess board so that none of them were threatened by any other.
The solution and the winner of the competition can be seen on our "Puzzle Answers" page ... but maybe try it for yourself before going there !
How many squares are there on a chessboard ?
THINK ABOUT IT !!!
No, the answer is not 64
A joint recipient of the 2020 Noble prize for Physics, 89-year-old Sir Roger Penrose is the brother of 10-time British Chess Champion Jonathan Penrose and whose father used to be a composer of chess problems.
Here is one of his problems which was published in an edition of "The Chess Amateur" in 1917 ....
White to move and win by checkmate in two moves
              CHESS WORDSEARCH
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There are 20 chess-related words hidden inside this 3Cs' wordsearch puzzle ... how many can you find ?
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No prize ... it's chess for fun.
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A list of the words are in the "Answers" section via the drop-down box of this "Puzzle Board" page.
To achieve a good result you must always get your pieces in the right order.
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Not only good advice at chess but also when doing a jigsaw ... and here you can combine both by completing chess-based jigsaws.
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Just click on a desired puzzle and then hold and drag a piece to move it to the required position.
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Scroll down for more jigsaws.
Play as many puzzles as you wish. Â Just click on the yellow arrow to go to the next. For more difficult puzzles click on the button at the bottom.
The British Chess Problem Society is an organisation for those who, although might not excel at actually playing the game of chess, enjoy the challenge of finding solutions to various positional problems which may occur in the process.
The Society's website can be accessed by the following link in which you can then find several such chess problems.