This is a very interesting puzzle. Once you see how the mating position would be, it would be easy.
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Puzzles: Pawn Mower
Maurice Ashley is a Jamaican-American chess player, author, and commentator. In 1999, he earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster, making him the first black person to do so. Ashley is well known as a commentator for high-profile chess events. He also spent many years teaching chess. In 2010 he developed a type of puzzles using... Continue Reading →
Math Puzzle: The Maths of Tying Shoelaces
Which method uses the shortest length of shoelace ?
Logic Puzzle
Here is a simple yet interesting logic puzzle. Good for beginners...
Chess Puzzle: White To Play And Win
What did White play here? Capablanca and Lasker together composed this interesting position in 1914.
Chess Puzzle
Black has an active queen, but White hopes to take advantage of the weakened back rank and somehow turn the tables! 🙂 It's WHITE TO PLAY. Can he win? 1.Rb2, 1.Rd2, and 1.Re2 are the candidate first moves. But which of them is the best? And why? — Dawid Przepiórka, 1920
Chess Puzzle
WHITE TO MOVE AND MATE IN 2 Is this really a mate in 2, with the white king so severely exposed on b4? Well, well, well… there are more things in the kingdom of Caïssa, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy! 🙂 — Godfrey F. Heathcote (Revue d'Échecs 1904, 1st Prize)
Constraints-Based Thinking, Strategy As An Art And Chess Puzzle
Recently I attended a leadership meeting where I had a brief discussion with Business Unit Head about the Strategy of our company not to diversify and focus on only one specific Industry vertical i.e. Banking and Financial Services (BFS). This was about Data and Analytics capabilities. I made a point with an analogy which was... Continue Reading →

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