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"This beautiful book is absolutely the best treatment of the connection between chess and recreational mathematics I have ever seen. What makes it stand apart (and far above) other chess puzzle books is the underlying mathematical theory, presented in an entertaining, fascinating, and educational manner."--Paul J. Nahin, author of "When Least Is Best""Watkins has a friendly writing style, and the reader is brought along nicely from simple concepts to slightly more complicated ones."--Ron Graham, 2003 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society, and President, Mathematical Association of AmericaWatkins, John J. is the author of 'Across the Board The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems', published 2007 under ISBN 9780691130620 and ISBN 0691130620.
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