White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
Mate in 3 ?
That’s what I see also 🙂
Yup. We have every thing before.
Spoiler Alert:
White is down in material and will lose its rook on the next move; thus, the only move open to white is to check the black king with the white queen at e3. The rook protects the left flank, so black must play to either of two white squares available to him. Depending on black’s choice, white still has no ‘time’ and responds by checking black, again, with either the rook or queen. The black king then moves to the white square it avoided on the prior move. White finishes off black on the next move. Ultimately, the rook occupies b5 and the queen is at d3.