Each of these puzzles involves game-playing strategy. If you are sufficiently clever—and sufficiently unmotivated to work hard at being clever—you can solve them all without resorting to algebra. Here is the premise: You have applied to join a chess club and been told that to qualify you must play three games against Ioana (the last new member), winning two games in a row. "Who gets the white pieces?" you ask and are told you and Ioana alternate and you get to decide whether to start with white or with black.
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