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Black and White

https://books.google.com/books?id=1F5AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA435

A chess problem from the Jamaica Gleaner. There’s no black king on this board. Find a place for him such that White can mate him in two moves.

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Put him on h5 and White can mate in two starting with 1. Qb3.

From Arthur Ford Mackenzie, Chess: Its Poetry and Its Prose, 1887.

February 20, 2021February 19, 2021 | Puzzles

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