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Plus — can you win like the world No2?
Puzzle: can you do better than resigning?
Puzzle: find the fast route to mate
Puzzle: find White’s immediately winning move
Puzzle: find White's only move to mate in three
Puzzle: can you solve this tricky pawn endgame?
Puzzle: just a single line of play, but ‘You’ll never guess the key!’
Puzzle: find the hidden move which leads to mate in three
Puzzle: what did the grandmaster miss?
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?
Magnus Carlsen is defending his world championship as artificial intelligence changes the game
Puzzle: find the No1 woman’s winning move
Puzzle: find White’s winning move
Puzzle: find the Chinese grandmaster’s winning move in an apparently level position
This week’s challenge — can you crack the Polish problem champion’s peculiar puzzle?
In this week’s puzzle: find Black’s winning move and surprise checkmate
In this week’s puzzle: what was the Frenchman’s winning move?
Puzzle: Black has rampaging knights, but can you find White’s hidden winner?
Puzzle: how does Black avoid instant checkmate?
In this week’s puzzle: Black plans checkmate in one — how do you counter it?
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