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In chessy news… not much. Our OTB club played against another town’s OTB club yesterday. We won, by two matches. I lost to a very strong player and fought my way back from a losing position for a draw.
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At chess.com I read that for “Titled Tuesday” (a weekly online tournament including only players with titles like International Master, Grand Master, etc.) Faustino Oro with 9.5 outperformed world #1 Magnus Carlsen, #2 Fabiano Caruana and #3 Hikaru Nakamura who all had 9.0. Faustino is 10 years old.
White to move and mate in 2.
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Too many choices for White; almost all of them block chances for a mate in 2. This one, however, seems to do the trick:
1. c2c3+
Black’s King cannot make a legal move, so he has to take the pawn with either his Queen or his own pawn on b4. It doesn’t matter which, because he cannot prevent 2. Qg7+, which is mate.