White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
This was a “Merry Christmas” problem composed by Adolph Dassenbach in 1898/99. The composer tells us to place the king on b5 whereupon White can mate in two with 1.Bxf5 Bxc6+ 2.Nxc6#; or 1...Bxf5 2.Nxf5#; 1...c4 2.Rxc4#; 1...Ne3 2.fxe3#; 1...Nb2 2.Qe3#; 1...Bd5 2.Qd3#; 1...Bf4 2.Qxe4#; 1...Ng4 2.Qxe4#; 1...Bxf3 2.Nxf3# 1...Nxf2 2.Qf2#]
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