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We hope you enjoyed the ancient problem from last week. The bishop moving just two squares (not one or three or four or more) made solving the problem a bit different. Now that you’ve had some experience with this, here’s another ancient problem, same bishop move, to solve. It’s a mate in three.


Solution:

What’s interesting about this problem is that with the modern bishop move, there are several solutions with the bishop moving first. With the old move bishop there is only one solution for the key first move: 1.Bd3 Ke6 [1...Kc6 2.Ke5 Kc5 3.Rc7#] 2.Kc5 Ke5 3.Re7#

 

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