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A cylinder chess puzzle - 1 - Solution

White:
King f3; Queen e3.

Black:
King h1; Pawn h2.

White to move and mate in two. Cylinder Chess.

Joseph Dimuro was the first to solve this problem! Congratulations. Here is his solution:

White moves queen to a3. Black is forced to move king to g1. White moves queen to c1, checkmate.

Another cylinder chess problem

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Written by: Hans Bodlaender
WWW page created: January 31, 1997. Last modified: November 3, 2013.