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By J. de C. Andrade. White to mate in two moves. SelectClick for Answer At first this looks absurdly easy — surely promoting either white pawn leads directly to mate? The trouble is that once either pawn advances, the other is pinned and can’t move. Instead, the key is the crazy-looking 1. Qh7! Black’s rook has no safe refuge on the eighth rank, and if it takes the queen then a pawn promotion is fatal. From The Problemist, 1941.
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Black and White - Futility Closet

By J. de C. Andrade. White to mate in two moves. SelectClick for Answer At first this looks absurdly easy — surely promoting either white pawn leads directly to mate? The trouble is that once either pawn advances, the other is pinned and can’t move. Instead, the key is the crazy-looking 1. Qh7! Black’s rook has no safe refuge on the eighth rank, and if it takes the queen then a pawn promotion is fatal. From The Problemist, 1941.

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