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Meanwhile, white to move. Mate in two.
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My Roman Sojourn is coming up, so I am very busy taking care of many things. One thing I am reviewing is my comms. I have had an Italian mobile number since the day that the Italian Bishops Conference said that priests should not have cellphones. I laughed and got one that very day. At first it was Omnitel, which was absorbed by Vodafone.
In any event, in those days when it was difficult to use your mobile for the internet, I got a mobile “hot spot” through Keepgo, which is still listed as one of the best services of its type. I have a data plan on my Italian phone.
Also, with ATT (gotta review that) you can use your phone as if you were in these USA for $10/day. But I am not interested in a $400 phone bill, as you can imagine. I tend not to turn on cellular on my US phone when in Rome, maybe once a week. Also, my US phone is still locked into ATT. My older Italian phone is unlocked. It doesn’t have the best camera however. Which means carrying more gadgets – two phones – than I would like when I hit the streets for those daily Rome pics. I feel like a drug dealer. I’m going to update my Keepgo as a backup for internet right now. Also I may get an ESIM for my US phone. I’ve never used an ESIM. I’ll dedicate one of my reader donations today to find out! So…
Thank you DD. You are one of the famous “200!” who has been so kind and faithful all this time. You “200!”s were a life boat in a storm. My gratitude to all the “200!”s who are left, and “100!”s, too. All you regular donors have my daily prayers.
The other option is buy an unlocked phone with a better camera for my Italian number. Unlocked phones can be spendy.
If you want to try Keepgo, a mobile hotspot, for travel, here is my referral code. Eac
h time someone gets some data through Keepgo, I get some data too: 3GB. That helps.
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1A. f8 with promotion to ROOK (promotion to queen leads to stalemate immediately).
1B. Kg7.
2. Rf7#
White pushes his pawn to f8, but exchanges it for a rook. (If he elects a queen, he manages only to stalemate the Black king.) Now Black has only one legal move: Kg7, whereupon White plays R(5)f7 mate.
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Not sure how you’d rack up a $400 bill on AT&T that way. The AT&T plan is for $10/day and maxes out after 10 days ($100). So after 10 days, the charge is maxed out. My wife and daughter spent about two weeks in Europe this summer and it worked quite well. ($100 for my wife and $50 for my daughter, maxed out at $150 after 10 days) They both have iPhones they were quite handy for Maps, public transit, photos, buying tickets on-line and staying in touch with us poor souls not there while they visited all sorts of great places.
Just thought I’d mention it.
[Well! You readers continue to educate me. That is great information. I won’t be so parsimonious with me US phone. I still have to solve the camera dilemma.]
1. f8R Kg7 2. Rf7++. The rooks defend eath other , the king blocks the rest.
Queening would lead to an immediate stalemate.