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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?
🧩 Puzzle 1: Damiano’s Mate
Black to play and mate in four
🧩 Puzzle 2: Back Rank Weakness
Black to play and mate in four
🧩 Puzzle 3: Smothered Mate
White to play and mate in four
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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Greco’s Mate]
Today’s theme is about Greco Mate in chess
💡 Key Insights:
You checkmate the opponent king on the H or A column with the bishop blocking the opponent’s king escaping square
Let us see an example to understand this
White to play and mate in two
Qg6 Hg5 Qh5#
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Ramalingam Karthik
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