♞FIVE PLYTHE CHESSGUESSR NOTEBOOK

A SMALL MYSTERY ON SIXTY-FOUR SQUARES

Read the position.
Find the next five moves.

Two players left a trail. Reconstruct five half-moves from their real game, using a little chess and a little deduction.

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White to move

Starting position♔ White · ♚ Black
Click a piece, then a highlighted square. Or select a legal move above.

FIVE MOVES · FIVE ATTEMPTS

Your line of inquiry

You play both sides. A move is one player’s turn.

ExactElsewherePiece typeMiss

Build a legal five-move line, then submit it.

Find what actually happened, not necessarily the engine’s best move. Reveals are marked as assisted.

WELCOME TO THE NOTEBOOK

Five half-moves. Five guesses.

Reconstruct the next five individual moves from a real game. You move both White and Black, alternating turns. Click a piece and a legal destination, or use the legal-move menu.

After a miss, the board resets to the initial position. Click any submitted row to replay it. Undo and clear work before submitting. Reveal next move builds the correct prefix and marks the puzzle assisted.

Chess notation: K king, Q queen, R rook, B bishop, N knight; no letter means pawn. “x” is capture, “+” check, “#” mate, “O-O” castling. Promotion offers four piece choices.

Choose a promotion

Reveal this mystery?

This ends the current puzzle and shows the recorded continuation.