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The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection (Dover Recreational Math)
by Raymond M. Smullyan
ISBN: 0486482014
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kolodny
· 2017-02-12 ·
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One of my favorite books is the "The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" which describes a technique called retrograde analysis
https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Mysteries-Sherlock-Holmes-Recre...
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