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Plus — can you win like the world No2?
Puzzle: find White’s two-move winning sequence
Puzzle: can you do better than resigning?
Puzzle: find the fast route to mate
Puzzle: find White’s immediately winning move
In this week’s puzzle: checkmate the white king in five moves
Puzzle: find White's only move to mate in three
Puzzle: find the missing moves
Puzzle: find the grandmaster’s winner
Puzzle: find the Ukrainian’s winning move
Puzzle: find the English grandmaster’s winning move
Puzzle: can you solve this tricky pawn endgame?
Puzzle: just a single line of play, but ‘You’ll never guess the key!’
Puzzles: find the 4NCL tactical coups
Puzzle: find the Bletchley codebreaker’s winning tactic
Puzzle: find the hidden move which leads to mate in three
Puzzle: what did the grandmaster miss?
Puzzle: how did Short force Timman to resign?
Puzzle: how can White defeat the bishops of opposite colours draw?
Puzzle — find Black’s winning move while avoiding White’s sneaky trap
Puzzle: find Nepo’s winning move
Puzzle: can you mate in five like Nepo?
Plus — in this week’s puzzle: can you do better than Magnus Carlsen?
Puzzle: how can White win despite being a queen down?
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