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Black and White

cumming chess problem

A tidy problem by G.A.W. Cumming. White to mate in two moves.

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1. Kxc6.

From Noah’s Sunday Times, via Charles F. Wadworth’s Unique Chess Problems, 1890.

August 23, 2021August 21, 2021 | Puzzles

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