Daily Rome Shot 804

Meanwhile, white to move and mate in 2.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

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In entertaining, but rather intimidating chessy news, here is a video of two of the super-strong super-young Super GMs, Prag and Duda, playing bullet WITHOUT A BOARD. They are using only pieces and internal board visualization.

Sky is the limit! @rpragchess and @GM_JKDuda showed us that the mind of a genius knows no bounds! #chess #mind pic.twitter.com/TWzvPefBNV

— WR_Chess_Masters (@wr_chess) August 29, 2023

Sigh.