Thursday 4 July 2013

Diagonals on Chess board

Today the puzzle is about the famous game of Chess.
Chess is abbreviation given for "CHARIOTS HORSES ELEPHENTS SOLDIERS"
The game was basically invented in India first. Where it was called "Shatranj". This game is all about securing the King of your side and killing the opponent's. This game shows the exact philosophy of life: "Have faith in yourself. Even a mere pawn can be promoted to the Queen. The whole game is dependent on the survival of King. No matter how good your strategy is, if you can not secure your king. You are gone." The other philosophy says: " The more responsibility you have, the less power you achieve. ie, The King here can take steps of only length one."

Now coming to the technicalities of Chess Board, there are total 64 squares on the board. 32 Black and 32 white ones. All the squares are structured in a way that, no two black or no two white squares are side by side.

The puzzle says:
You are supposed to choose four squares. There are many ways possible to choose these squares. But from all those possible scenarios, what is the number of ways in which you can choose four squares such that, they all lie on the same diagonal.
The puzzle is quite famous one. This can be solved with the basics of probability theorems. So, try to solve on your own. There are many chances that you get the solution of this puzzle online. So, for that reason, I recommend you to solve on your own. Solve the puzzle and if you can't reach to answer, comment here. We will discuss the idea behind it. But, do not cheat by checking the solution online.


In how many ways you can select 4 squares on chess board such that all lie on the same diagonal??? Explain with reason.....

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