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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?
🧩 Puzzle 1: Back Rank Mate
White to play and mate in two
🧩 Puzzle 2: Boden’s Mate
White to play and mate in three
🧩 Puzzle 3: Smothered Mate
White to play and mate in two
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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Hook Mate]
Today’s theme is about Hook Mate in chess.
💡 Key Insights:
Hookmate involves a rook, a knight, and often a pawn or a king or a bishop supporting the knight, where the rook delivers the checkmate.
Let us see an example to understand this
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White to play and mate in two
Ra8 Kd7 Rd8# or
Ra8 Kf7 Rf8#
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