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Dress Pr0n For the 'Ettes:

Worn #onthisday in 1953 by Queen Elizabeth II for her coronation in Westminster Abbey. She wore the Norman Hartnell gown--patriotically woven of fibers from an English silk farm in Kent and embroidered with symbols of Commonwealth countries--a total of 7 times. #OTD @wabbey @RCT pic.twitter.com/mLzP2EOKpD

— Worn On This Day (@WornOnThisDay) June 2, 2018

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Solutions Update

Easier Problem - Black To Play

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Mate in 2:

1...Bxe4+!
2.Qxe4 Qxh2#

or 2.Qg2 Qxh2#

More Challenging Problem - White To Play

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White may try 1.Qh1+ and there would follow 1...Kc4 (1...Ke6 2.Qe4#) 2.Qe4+ Kb3 3.Qa4# which, being a mate in 3, is pretty good.

Also a mate in 3 is 1.Qe2 c4 (if 1...c6 then 2.Be7#) 2.Qg2+ Kc5 3.Qc6#

But the best move, the lowest value of X is X=2. Thus:

1.Qb1!

There are 4 responses, all of which mate in 2:

1...Ke6 2.Qe4#

1...c4 2.Qf5#

1...c6 2.Bf7#

1...Kc4 2.Qa2#

Boom.

Hope to see you all next week!

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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and past it into your chess app.

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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

posted by OregonMuse at 05:10 PM

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