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Rob Hill's avatar

No figurines! On my mobile I had to blow up the image to read Kb6.

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Martin B. Justesen's avatar

I just think it’s good for non-English chess players, so maybe a larger font will help

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Mark Leonard's avatar

In the email that I received I thought that there was a pawn on b7. It's really hard to distinguish the bishop figurine from a pawn. You should use a standard font.

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Martin B. Justesen's avatar

Thanks! Maybe I should just use no figurines with the pawns to avoid this problem and just write: e3 (if there is a pawn on e3

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Ahmed Mansour's avatar

For the book cover idea.. a field resembling the chessboard.. the white king on his home square blindfolded with black rag, the black king on his home square blindfolded with a white rag.. some squares in the field are covered like if there’re trap holes in the ground.. the POV is from the “a file” side of the field with the white king on the right side of the spectator and the black king on the left.

I have titles suggestion for each part of the series:

Part one: mind the trap holes

Part two: mind the mines

Part three: dead man walking

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Martin B. Justesen's avatar

Nice idea, ahmed! :D

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Stephen J. Alff's avatar

When I looked at the blindfold puzzle it didn't click until I drew it on paper, so I can see that that is something I need to work on a lot more x)

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Martin B. Justesen's avatar

I will soon have some more problems for you to practice on ;)

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AK Bryant's avatar

Opened comments to say the same thing. Figurines could be bigger or text instead, yes. (I also solved for pawn on b7 lol). Looking forward to the book! Thanks

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