Superb Chess Riddles (Easy – Difficult)

By Cinthia McDonald, Summer Youth Intern

Let us see how fast your brain can work and try out these chess-based brain teasers…

(The answers will be at the bottom of the page)

 

Easy: 

• Two individuals are playing chess, and they both play five games. In the end they leave with three wins without any losses or draws. How is this possible?

• The eight of us go forth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

• I am the weakest in chess, but the strongest in checkers. The hat that rests upon my head is of great value. What am I?

Intermediate: 

• A knight leaps over a tower and the tower vanishes. You did not imagine it and you are not hallucinating. Where could this have happened?

• Why can you not make chess pieces out of bread?

• How did the king lose his home?

Difficult:

• What cannot a queen do that every other piece can?

• Why did the chess player offer a draw?

• How do you know when your pawn is doing a good job?

 

Answers: 

1. They played different games.
2. A pawn.
3. The king.
4. A chessboard.
5. It would be a stalemate.
6. A knight took it.
7. A queen cannot capture a more valuable piece or deliver a discovered check.
8. They are not good at painting.
9. They get promoted.

 

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