Your king is on a corner cell of a chessboard and your opponent's knight is on the corner cell diagonally opposite. No other pieces are on the board. The knight moves first.

For how many moves can you avoid being checked?

Source: David L. Silverman's collection of game problems, titled Your Move.

(In reply to re: Solution by Steve Herman)

You are right, of course.  I just didn't want to go into the full analysis.

Posted by Jer on 2015-12-23 13:20:20