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Swap the white and the black figures.
wap the black and white knights in the fewest moves
Swap the white and the black figures.
Swap the white and the black figures.
You Win!
Steeplechase* - not an accidental key phrase for a series of such knight-exchange chess puzzles like this one. It is a chess puzzle for developing mental calculation skills. You don't need to know how to play chess to solve this puzzle. It is enough to know how a chess knight moves on the chessboard.
Black and white knights are arranged on this Y-letter shaped chessboard, two opposite squads facing each other. Only two empty cells available makes this places this chess problem in the upper level of difficulty.
Counting a consecutive series of leaps of a knight as one move, can you exchange the knights in exactly 11 moves?
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*This chess problem first appeared in 'The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers' by the Grabarchuk Family in 2011, published by Puzzle Wright Press, part of Sterling Publishing