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Puzzle - White mates in two moves

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mavenleo

I don't know the answer

Martin_Stahl
mavenleo wrote:

I don't know the answer

I think it's Qe8.

Then it depends on what black does but I think white has mate in all continuations

doumdoumi

1bd7 nkd7 2 rd5

Martin_Stahl
doumdoumi wrote:

1bd7 nkd7 2 rd5

Black takes the rook by Rxd5

JamesColeman

Qe8 is clever as all black’s discovered checks are all met with mate, problem is it doesn’t actually threaten anything and black can move the B on b2. Must admit I stared at it for a couple of minutes and nothing really jumped out so I put it into Stockfish to satisfy my curiosity.