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Today's Chess Challenge | By Pete Tamburro
Solve this Problem...
White to Play and Mate with Conditions
This is an old problem that I give to my young students to help the learn about the long range power of the queen and also to give them some experience in forcing an opponent to make a move to a certain square. It's a pretty good mental gymnastic for adults as well. Here's the task: mate the Black king in seven moves without taking those three queens off the first rank. That's right. They can only move to a1, b1, c1, d1, e1, f1, g1, h1 and they've got to mate that king. Your best bet is to get that Black king closer...
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A C, an E-flat, and a G go into a bar. The bartender says: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So, the E-flat leaves, and the C and the G have an ...
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