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Dress Pr0n For The 'Ettes:

Today’s #ootd is a lemon yellow tea gown from 1910. Since the weather armed up to a whole 55 degrees, I thought I’d celebrate with something sunny ☀️! #coutaubegarie #FashionHistory pic.twitter.com/IKTjtH009P

— Lauren Deutsch (@LaurenCDeutsch) November 19, 2019

A Downton Abbey Garden Party?

Greetings From Germany

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Problem Solutions

Beginner Problem - White To Play

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So the problem is to figure out how to wrest the rook away from Black and still have enough material to win the game. You just can't take it with the biahop, because you'll be left with only 2 knights, which is insufficient for checkmate.

1.Ne4

Now Black has to move his king, as the rook is pinned.

1...Kxe4

2.Bxc2+ and the B+N checkmate is difficult, but doable.

Intermediate Problem - White To Play

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1.Bg4 Rd6

There are two other options:

1...Rd8 2. Rxd5 Rxd5 3. Be6+
1...Re7 2. Rxd5

Either one leads to a fork, as does the main line:

2.Rxd5 Rxd5
3.Be6+ Kf8
4.Bxd5 and wins

Black cannot escape the bishop fork.

Advanced Problem - White To Play

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Not sure if there's much explaining I can do. This is one of those problems whose solutions you just have to see. And, as I said, I didn't. So this is what my app told me. I found the other line starting with Black's 2nd move since it was my way of testing the app's solution, and it held up.

1.Qf8+! Ke1
2.Qd6 Kf2

Or 2...Kf1 3.Qf4+ Ke1 4.Qd4 Kf1 5.Qg1#

3.Qf4+ Ke1
4.Qd4 Kf1
5.Qg1#

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 05:20 PM

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