Find the two possible winning-moves in this checkmate-in-two puzzle.
What is the connection between the two solutions?
You won’t have a hard time solving it.
A nice, light puzzle, to isolate and emphasize a cool idea that sometimes appears in the ‘serious’ Art-puzzles.
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๐ก The idea is of course ‘Switch-Back’ โฉ the piece moved in the first move returns to its original position in the second move ๐ฅ .
An interesting situation is obtained, where White’s pieces are arranged exactly as in the opening position ๐ค and only the change in the position of Black’s piece creates the checkmate position ๐ค .
For example, you can see a ‘switchback’ in this artistic puzzle