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A very unusual mate in 3 showed up on facebook, so I thought I’d share. I don’t know who the composer is.


I hope you realized there had to be underpromotions involved. 1.d8=B Kxe6 [1...Kxc6 2.b8=R Kd6 3.Rb6#] 2.f8R Kd6 3.Rf6#

 


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