http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged SQL Puzzles, Advanced Querying posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Chess makes a fantastic game for programming examples. You will find hundreds of examples on the internet. Some dedicated to OO patterns, others to algorithms and so forth. Unfortunately, most of these examples do not use a database or if they do, treat the database as nothing more than a storage repository. In this series of articles we will use SQL Server and T-SQL to implement the game of chess with an emphasis on thinking in sets.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3008/2007/05/21http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3008/The third part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with REPLACE. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/20010422115807/91/2001/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/20010422115807/91/The fourth part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with numeric conversions. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/20010422115809/92/2001/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced+Querying/20010422115809/92/