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Salt:Checkmate! Mystery Cache

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spistermooner: With it's mate gone, time to archive.

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Hidden : 7/17/2009
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

If you know chess, this is more like a 2 star difficulty. If not, introduce a chess player to caching!

It's pretty simple: Go into the gallery and find the 6 chess puzzles. In solving these puzzles in this cache, you are moving for the white pieces. Your task: Find the ONE chess piece which can move which will result in an IMMEDIATE checkmate of the black king. Careful: there may be many ways to create check, but only one piece can checkmate with their move in each scenario. Again--which piece MOVES to create the checkmate in one move?

Once you identify the piece that moves in order to create a checkmate, refer to the key below to determine the coordinates of the cache:

0=king side castle (note: "castle" here does not mean "rook")

1=queen side castle

2=knight on a green square

3=knight on a white square

4=rook on a green square

5=rook on a white square

6=bishop on a dark square

7=bishop on a white square

8=pawn

9=queen

Cache is at N47 07.ABC, W122 18.DEF

Bring your own pen/pencil. Getting good satellite reception is difficult here, so use the very helpful hint. I should be getting you within 50 feet; trust me--I worked at getting it as close as I could!

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Additional Hints ()

Ba fbhgu fvqr, evtug raq bs zbffl ybt.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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