The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights

In this collection of problems, Raymond Smullyan transports the game of chess to the world of the Arabian knights. The White King is Haroun Al Rashid, the White Bishop is his Grand Vizier, Archie. They are out to counter the Black King Kazir's attempts at invisibility, and to unmask the disguised Queen Medea. In addition, using the deductive logic that is the hallmark of these exercises in retrograde analysis, Haroun and Archie discover pawns who've robbed the royal treasury, lazy knights who refuse to move more than once or twice, and buried castles, as well as encountering any number of phantoms, genii, magicians, philosophers, and hermits. Cover......Page 1 The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights......Page 8 CONTENTS......Page 10 BOOK I The REIGN of HAROUN AL RASHID......Page 24 BOOK II TALES of tbe TREASURY......Page 42 BOOK III ARABIAN KNIGHTS......Page 56 BOOK IV TALES of the PALACE......Page 80 BOOK V TALES of MAGIC and the SUPERNATURAL......Page 100 BOOK VI The STORY of AMELIA......Page 120 APPENDIXES......Page 140 I PROBLEMS COMPOSED AT KAZIRS CASTLE......Page 142 II SOLUTIONS......Page 146 AFTERWORD......Page 190 Chess Problems In Retrograde Analysis Occur In New Arabian Knights Stories In Which The Chess Pieces Are The Main Characters