The White rooks cannot move outside the little square in which they are enclosed except on the final move, in giving checkmate. The puzzle is how to checkmate Black in the fewest possible moves with No. $8$ rook, the other rooks being left in numerical order around the sides of their square with the break between $1$ and $7.$
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