@jhawksworth5@askavrukh You suspect wrong. I've given it to people with the same "clues" and no one ever found it. Least of all so quickly. Nigel Short found it but not in a few minutes. Other than yourself only one person ever found it and that is the player who played it: Kholmov - Bronstein Kiev 1964
@GMHikaru@andrewbeaton@WSJSports I'd take it more seriously had they quoted him correctly. Seeing as they didn't it only makes me lose more faith in WSJ.
@jhawksworth5@askavrukh Then you are stronger than several SGMs I gave this position to and none of them found Nc6. Those include Radjabov, Polgar, and an 11y.o future champion called Magnus Carlsen. I also posted it on chesspub many years ago and precisely zero people found that combo.
@nigelshortchess I adjust them to face inwards but in a diagonal fashion towards the centre so they're not the same and I maintain the same initial angle throughout the game so even after thirty moves I still know if a knight is a king's knight or a queen's knight