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“Chess Detective Work”: Solution

Posted in Puzzles by Greg Ross on March 16th, 2007

Solution to Chess Detective Work:

The earlier game must have reached this position:

Dudeney retrograde analysis

From here, White played e5+, and Blacked responded … f5 (the only move). Then White captured the pawn en passant, exf5 e.p., producing the final position.