alt Hacker NewsWait, the instructions are a little ambiguous. I clicked "Solution" and it has the dark-squared bishop on a white square! XD
Should maybe update the instructions to clarify that the dark-squared bishop is not constrained to dark squares.
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danbrooks • yesterday at 10:07 PM
The instructions likely mean that the bishop itself is black, not the square that it is on.
dwa3592 • yesterday at 11:12 PM
that's exactly what happened to me. I ended up spending so much time thinking black bishop can only go to black squares. and agreed this is a bit ambiguous.
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NooneAtAll3 • yesterday at 11:37 PM
> The task is to place four black queens and one black bishop on the chessboard
where did you read "dark-squared"?
It's a black bishop, but not necessarily a dark-squared bishop. Both the black side and white side in a normal chess game get a dark-squared and a light-squared bishop, and I don't see anywhere that specifies which type this one is. It can be either one depending on where you place it.