Thanks to the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, chess is having a moment. A quintet of queens. In other words, the task is to find the ‘worst’ arrangement of the five queens, meaning the arrangement that leaves the largest number of squares unattacked. You don’t need to understand chess to do this puzzle. In The Queen’s Gambit, the character Beth Harmon is the best female chess player that ever lived.

Source: The Guardian November 30, 2020 07:12 UTC