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The Diagram is the Alice in Wonderland Position.
The Solution takes you to a website with the Descriptive solution.
When I was child I spent hours on trying to solve the position. One of my friends had an Alice in Wonderland book with the chess problem, but the solution was not given. Each Chess piece represented an Alice In Wonderland character.
White wins in 11.
According to resources Black to move.
To see an animated solution go to:
Alice in Wonderland’s Mysterious Chess Game « Chessalee
From Sparks Notes:
"Alice becomes a pawn in the game of chess and discovers that Looking-Glass World closely follows the strict rules of chess. Alice can only move forward one “square” at a time, despite the fact that she seems to wield a degree of imaginative control over Looking-Glass World. While the Queen seems to “vanish” because she can travel quickly across the board, just as a Queen has greater mobility in a game of chess. As a pawn, Alice has much more restricted mobility and line of vision. Alice is not only a pawn in the game of chess, but also in the text of the book. The author has absolute control over Alice's actions and can move her around at will in the context of the story as if she were a pawn."
Domaine de Lacroix-Laval, May 10th 2007
Here is the last message (coded !) that Lewis CARROLL did address in December 1896 to the chess players and his readers of the book “Through the looking glass and what Alice found there” which is the sequel of Alice in wonderland.
Preface to 1896 edition
As the chess-problem, given on the previous page, has puzzled some of my readers, it may be well to explain that it is correctly worked out, so far as the moves are concerned. The alternation of Red and White is perhaps not so strictly observed as it might be, and the "castling" of the three Queens is merely a way of saying that they entered the palace; but the "check" of the White King at move 6, the capture of the Red Knight at move 7, and the final "checkmate" of the Red King, will be found, by any one who will take the trouble to set the pieces and play the moves as directed, to be strictly in accordance with the laws of the game.
The new words, in the poem "Jabberwocky", have given rise to some differences of opinion as to their pronunciation: so it may be well to give instructions on that point also. Pronounce "slithy" as if it were the two words "sly, the": make the "g" hard in "gyre" and "gimble" : and pronounce "rath" to rhyme with "bath".
For this sixty-first thousand, fresh electroypes have been taken from the wood-blocks (witch, never having been used for printing from, are in as good condition as when first cut in 1871), and the whole book has been set up afresh with new type. If the artistic qualities of this reissue fall short, in any particular, of those possessed by the original issue, it will not be for want of painstaking on the part of author, publisher, or printer.
I take this opportunity of announcing that the Nursery "Alice", hitherto priced at four shillings, net, is now to be had on the same terms as the ordinary shilling pictures books – although I feel sure that it is, in every quality (except the text itself, in which I am not qualified to pronounce), greatly superior to them. Four shillings was a perfectly reasonable price to charge, considering the very heavy initial outlay I had incurred : still, as the Public have practically said, "We will not give more than a shilling for a picture-book, however artistically got-up, "I am content to reckon my outlay on the book as so much dead loss, and, rather than let the little ones, for whom it was written, go without it, I am selling it at a price which is, to me, much the same thing as giving it away.
Christmas, 1896
Lewis CARROLL