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RHP Christmas Quiz and Caruana's Pencil

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A Christmas Quiz, a Christmas Story.
Puzzles and some Red Hot Pawn games.
Blog Post 671

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@greenpawn34 said

A Christmas Quiz, a Christmas Story.
Puzzles and some Red Hot Pawn games.
Blog Post 671
Am I missing something in puzzle one? I think that Re6+ is not mate the King can evade to f6, that is not covered.

While I think that tranforming the pawn into a queen will yield a chekmate regardless of the King's move.

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@Ponderable

OOPS! the answer is 1.b8=N Ke6 2.Rh6 mate. (corrected)
Merry Christmas.

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Great thread. Thanks GP.


(PS the striped shirt is awful.)

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@moonbus

Pink and Black hoops keeps me safe from hooligans.
No football team has those colours.

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@greenpawn34 said
@moonbus

Pink and Black hoops keeps me safe from hooligans.
No football team has those colours.
😆