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In our sixth week in chess summer school, we’re trying to get you to think more than a few moves ahead. It’s a little easier because all the moves to mate are checks! This was a game, P. Schmidt-Dr. Schmidt, Heidelberg, 1946


- Solution: If you didn’t get it, then the best thing you can do is look at the solution and then play it through in your head from the diagram and keep doing it until you can go all the way through it: 1.Qh6+ Kxh6 [1...Kh8 2.Qxh7+ Kxh7 3.hxg6+ Kg7 4.Rh7#]2.hxg6+ Kg5 [2...Kg7 3.Rxh7#]3.Rh5+ Kxh5 4.f4+ Kh6 5.Rh1+ Qh3 6.Rxh3+ Kg7 7.Rxh7#

 


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