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Sunday 21 October 2012

Answering puzzles: step for step

Note to self: this is puzzle CA
Sometimes in chess you have to make a big sacrifice to gain much more! In this case, to win the game!

White to move and he moves
1) Q x d8!
The black King takes the queen
                  ....K x g8.

Now the board looks like this:

Now, white can move one piece and put black in checkmate!
Can you see it?  Click here to enter the answer.  

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I hope this step by step tutorial helps you to answer the puzzles.

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