However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.

This is false — Loyd had nothing to do with the invention or popularity of the puzzle, and in any case the craze was in 1880, not the early 1870s:

One of his best known chess problems is the following, called " Excelsior " by Loyd after the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Another is proposed by Sam Loyd in The Eighth Book Of Tan:

Loyd H. Roland Memorial Park ( also known as Akron Park ), http :// www. akron-pa. com / parks. html, is a 70 plus acre park located on Main Street on the East side of Akron.

It is named after Loyd Grisham, a man who helped build a railroad spur here from the Belmont Branch Railroad around 1910.

The unincorporated community of Loyd is located in the town.

For example, Sam Loyd devised the problem: " Construct a game which ends with black delivering discovered checkmate on move four " ( published in Le Sphinx, 1866 ; the solution is 1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 h5 3. Kg3 h4 + 4. Kg4 d5 #); while all White moves are unique ( see Beauty in chess problems below ), the Black ones aren't. Black mating on move 5 by change to knight.

The Conscience of a Hacker ( also known as The Hacker Manifesto ) is a small essay written January 8, 1986 by a computer security hacker who went by the handle ( or pseudonym ) of The Mentor ( born Loyd Blankenship ).

In The Chess Monthly, November 1860, American puzzle inventor Sam Loyd published the first helpmate with Black to move as is now standard, one intended main line, and an attractive but false solution ( a try ) to mislead solvers.

To younger generations, Frost is chiefly known for his role on this show, alongside Loyd Grossman.

Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA ( born 16 September 1950 ) is an American-British television presenter, gastronome and musician who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom.

Anthony William Vivian Loyd ( born on 12 September 1966 ) is an English journalist, noted war correspondent, and former British Army officer who saw active service in the First Gulf War.

The memoir is a chilling depiction of the depravity of war and adrenalin addiction Loyd experienced covering the violent dissolution of Yugloslavia in the mid-1990s.

Loyd refers to Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart as his grandfather in several articles, whereas Carton de Wiart is actually his maternal great-grandfather.

The northwest corner is connected to the Loyd All-Sports Center, which contains locker, training, and office space for SMU athletics, as well as the Spirit Shop, the office of the Alumni Association, and the Athlete Education Center.

In The Kingdom, the mini-series that serves as a sequel to Kingdom Come, her name is revealed to be Mar ' i. Mary is the name of her paternal grandmother, Mary Loyd Grayson.

As the two women talk, Codi's high school relationship with Loyd Peregrina is revealed.

Loyd, a Native American who grew up on the nearby Reservation, is ready to establish a serious and committed relationship, but Codi is not ready to imagine herself as staying in one place or loving only one person.

Sam Loyd is often wrongly credited with making sliding puzzles popular based on his false claim that he invented the fifteen puzzle.

Loyd Blankenship, the managing editor of Steve Jackson Games ' former Illuminati BBS acknowledged that Steffan received his wish, and kept the original conversion article online.

At his peak, Loyd was one of the best chess players in the U. S., and was ranked 15th in the world, according to chessmetrics. com.

MTX's Loyd Ivey helped underwrite the project and the driver was then called the MTX " Thunder 1000000 " ( one million ).

The Red Army, with its purchase of the British Vickers Carden Loyd tankette, Vickers E-Light and Cruiser Mk II Medium tanks, and of the American Christie suspension for production use in its own vehicles, was clearly one of the leading exponents of this practice.

Alexander Loyd ( also Alexander Lloyd ) ( August 19, 1805 – May 7, 1872 ))) served one term as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1840 until 1841 for the Democratic Party.

Brookes appeared on the quiz show Through the Keyhole in the late 1990s as one of the celebrities whose homes were visited by Loyd Grossman.

The Loyd Carrier was one of a number of small tracked vehicles used by the British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War to transport equipment and men about the battlefield.

* Sam Loyd, regarded as America's greatest puzzlist

All were generally based on the Carden Loyd type that Renault had simply copied for his Renault UE — without paying any licence rights — and used the standard Renault Reinastella engine.

* Jeff Weaver, Jason Williams, Warren Morris, Augie Ojeda, Jim Parque, Travis Lee, Braden Looper, Brian Loyd, Billy Koch, Mark Kotsay, Matt Lecroy, Kip Harkrider, A. J. Hinch, Jacque Jones, Troy Glaus, Chad Green, Seth Greisinger, Chad Allen, Kris Benson, and R. A. Dickey — Baseball, Men's Team Competition

in Martin Gardner: The Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd.

* Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd ( ISBN 0-486-20498-7 ): selected and edited by Martin Gardner

* More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd ( ISBN 0-486-20709-9 ): selected and edited by Martin Gardner

A sample of notable puzzle authors includes Sam Loyd, Henry Dudeney, Boris Kordemsky and, more recently, David J. Bodycombe, Will Shortz, Lloyd King and Martin Gardner.

Loyd Jowers ( November 20, 1926May 20, 2000 ) was the owner of a restaurant ( Jim's Grill ) near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach, a friend of Caidin's who sometimes accompanied him in demonstrations and workshops, reiterated a strong endorsement of him in his June 2004 Fate magazine column: " Martin Caidin was capable of moving things with his mind.

Cover art from " The 8th Book of Tan ", by Sam Loyd, a spoof of the puzzle's history that began the Tangram Craze in the Western World

* Loyd Searle, " The Bombsight War: Norden vs. Sperry ", IEEE Spectrum September 1989, pp. 60 – 64

* Loyd, Tom ( 1994 ), " Giants with Feet of Clay ", Financial Times, Dec 5 1994, p 8

An enthusiast of Tangram puzzles, Loyd published a book of seven hundred unique Tangram designs and a fanciful history of the origin of the Tangram, which was, however, presented as true, and has been described as " Sam Loyd's Most Successful Hoax ".

Loyd bet a friend that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line, and when it was published in 1861 it was with the stipulation that white mates with " the least likely piece or pawn ".

Sam Loyd claimed from 1891 until his death in 1911 that he invented the puzzle, for example writing in the Cyclopedia of Puzzles ( published 1914 ): " The older inhabitants of Puzzleland will remember how in the early seventies I drove the entire world crazy over a little box of movable pieces which became known as the " 14-15 Puzzle ".

Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line ( his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate ), and when the problem was published it was with the stipulation that white mates with " the least likely piece or pawn ".

Loyd Blankenship, aka The Mentor, described Goggans / Bloodaxe as " the best hacker I ever met ".

Those which were not delivered by the outbreak of the Second World War were taken into service with the British Army as the " Tank Light, Vickers Carden Loyd, Model 1936 "-in practice they were referred to by the nickname " Dutchmen ".

Following Ray's death, Pepper represented the King family in a wrongful death lawsuit, " King family vs. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators ".