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Advanced Problem - White To Play (573)

White has this game won. Fill out the decision tree as completely as you can. How long is the longest branch?

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Tea dress, 1900's pic.twitter.com/LMfjGxQv0e

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Greetings From Afghanistan

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Solutions Update

Beginner Problem - White To Play

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It's a forced mate in 3:

1.Nxf7+ Rxf7
2.Re8+ Rf8
3.Rxf8#

Intermediate Problem - White To Play

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The mate is 5 moves down the road, but the decision tree is quite narrow.

1.Qd3+ Kh5
2.Qh3+ Kg6
3.Bd3+ Ne4
4.Bxe4+ Kf6
5.Qxe6#

Advanced Problem - White To Play

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1.Qh7+ Kxh7 (if 1...Kf8 then 2.Qh8#)
2.Nf6+ Kh8 (2...Kxh6 3.Rh3+ Kg5 4.Rg3+ Kxf6 (4...Kh6 5.Rg6#) 5.Rg6#)
3.Bxg7+ Rxg7 (3...Kxg7 4.Rg3+ Kxf6 5.Rg6#)
4.Rh3+ Bh5
5.Rxh5+ Rh7
6.Rxh7#

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 paste 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 05:27 PM

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