(A) White can make up to 10 legitimate moves until all kings are checkmate.
(B) White can take any black piece except the king.
(C) The White King cannot be in check position at any time of the game.
Can you checkmate all kings in less than 10 moves?
A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 10 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 20 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?
In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.