Saturday, May 25, 2019

knowledge - Crossword gone overboard


This puzzle is part 24 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.






Dear Puzzling,


By the time you receive this message, I may have already returned from my trip. Today I visited a luxurious mansion built by an important person. I hope your board game skills are not rusty, because you'll need them for today's puzzle!


Wish you were here!
Love, Gladys.






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Across
1. Large inlet
5. Local name for Scotland
9. More delicate
10. A place where a fly is a nuisance
11. An African country or its capital city
15. Less feral

16. A Uruk-hai, for example
18. Native of an Arab state
19. Zilch
20. Precious stone
21. Card below trey
22. Evaluated


Down
1. Perfect is the enemy of —
2. Prefix for -cycle or -brow
3. Short-range network

4. — as a fiddle
5. Arsenals
6. Instead of = in — of
7. Grandmaster Larsen
8. Newspaper piece
12. Outlaw assassinated by coward
13. Members of the clergy
14. Arizona landmark: Horseshoe —
15. Ancient Roman attire
16. Legal obligation

17. Sushi ingredient





Gladys will return in "Thousands and thousands of words".



Answer



Once again, I feel like I’m swooping in and snatching the answer, using the excellent solutions already provided by @Glorfindel for the chess puzzles and @Jay for the crossword. Thanks to you both!


If we:



Only use white’s moves for the chess solutions per @Glorfindel’s answer, and then map them accordingly according to @Jay’s crossword, we get Tjong a Fie which is a luxurious mansion in North Sumatra, Indonesia.




Specifically:



a4: T
b5: J
a6: O
b7: N
a8: G

c7: A


d8: F
f7: I
g7: E



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