A checkmate puzzle in two moves, as usual.
Ensuring mate on the next move, regardless of Blackโs reply.
Not that he can try much ๐คทโโ๏ธ his choices are ratherโฆ limited ๐ค.
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Attempts to exploit Whiteโs large material advantage and play by the usual endgame tactics donโt lead to a mate quickly enough ๐ค.
The winning move is actually the one that increases the freedom of the โ โ in fact, it doubles it: from only two legal squares to four.
And itโs not just a chance to escape โ the โ even captures a โ(or โ…) along the way!
(True, itโs small comfort in his desperate situationโฆ but donโt worry about Black โ
He knows perfectly well this is a puzzle, not a battle.)
The true beauty lies in the second move ๐.
In every mate-in-two problem, thereโs always a second-move mate โ but here, itโs the same move in every variation.
The โ simply continues, steadily and innocently, one more step in the same direction โ without caring about the chaos around it โ and everything falls perfectly into place ๐๏ธโ.
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