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Chess Journalist of the Year, Pete Tamburro

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Helpmate in Two

By Pete Tamburro

This week will be devoted to an interesting form of chess you have been shown before. The helpmate puzzles, which although lesser understanding chess types sometimes sneer at, actually are a form of useful chess mental exercise. One of the biggest difficulties amateurs have is envisioning the final mating positions that a series of moves will bring about. Masters see the final position first and then see how it is possible to get there. Helpmates are a kind of callisthenic in that you don’t have someone (your opponent) operating against you. Here you control all the pieces and have them conspire to create a mating position. Thus, our problem for today requires Black to move first and help White mate Black in two moves by White. Try visualizing possible mating positions and then see if you can get the pieces to cooperate to mate Black.


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