A new Chessboard Sudoku puzzle for you!

Hello and Happy Holidays to all,

The latest Chessboard Sudkoku puzzle, numbered #84 and entitled "Might as Well Jump", is now up on the website for solving online at http://www.manushand.com/chessboard?puzzle=84 (and shown as a screenshot below).

This is a 10x10 Sudoku on which the chessboard has been placed.  Your job is to solve the Sudoku puzzle (fill in the digits, zero through nine, into each square of the grid) by determining how each chess piece reached its current position during the game.  Normal Sudoku rules apply:  each of the ten digits must appear once and only once in each row, column, and thick-bordered box in the grid.

This is an UP-DOWN puzzle, meaning that the WHITE pieces moved UP in number with each move they made (for example, if a piece started on a 3, its first move had to have been made to a square containing a 4, then to a 5, etc., etc.) and BLACK pieces moved DOWN in number with each of their moves (for example, from a 3 to a 2 then to a 1 and then to a 0).

This puzzle has fairly detailed HINTS available to help you along the way if you get stuck, as well!

TO GET YOU STARTED: The fact that there is a 3 in the c1 square should enable you, with your chess skills, to immediately fill in a great many of the squares on the eighth rank!  HINT: the digit on b8 must be odd, due to a knight alternating colors (and odd-even digits) as it moves, and it cannot be greater than 9 of course.  Furthermore, it cannot be 9, since the Black king had to travel through it to get to a8, and since Black pieces move DOWN in number, there is no way it could ever have moved ONTO a 9.

One thing I hope you enjoy about this particular puzzle is that the Mate in Two that it depicts must be solved before you can get too far with the other (chess and Sudoku) deductions you need to make to get to the solution.

Please enjoy and let me hear any feedback you have on this or any other of the collection of Chessboard Sudoku puzzles there.

oh nice chess theme