#18 · Checkmate in 8
Checkmate in 8 moves #18
Owen's Defense — a 1623 trap, played by a robot · Owen's Defense (B00)
Baez
Ajeeb
Checkmate in eight moves — episode eighteen, the season finale. Gioachino Greco published this trap in sixteen twenty-three. In eighteen eighty-eight it was played by Ajeeb — a chess-playing robot, with a strong player hidden inside.
The board stops before the key move — you'll have to find it yourself.
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