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Chess Board Switch (Posted on 2004-02-28) Difficulty: 3 of 5
You have a 4×5 chess board as follows:

You can move the four bishops in any order (not necessarily alternating black and white), provided that no move puts a piece in danger of being captured by a bishop of the opposite color.

What is the fewest number of moves needed for the black and white bishops to exchange places?

See The Solution Submitted by Gamer    
Rating: 3.6667 (6 votes)

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re: Solution1 | Comment 6 of 15 |
(In reply to Solution1 by Ariel)

Ariel wrote:
"...which means we have reached a deadlock and there is no solution."

But didn't Eric, in the first comment to this problem, show that there *is* a solution to this problem?

TP

  Posted by ThoughtProvoker on 2004-02-29 04:52:32

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