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Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you win the battle of queens and rooks?
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you checkmate like the Bletchley codebreaker?
Puzzle: find White’s winning move
In this week’s puzzle: White failed to find the best move — can you do better?
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — find Carlsen’s winning move
Puzzle: can you solve this picturesque mate in two?
Puzzle: White to move and win
In this week’s puzzle: find the imaginative route to victory
Grandmaster, 19, accuses champion Magnus Carlsen and others of slander in affair that has rocked game’s elite echelons
As technology helps players calculate their odds, it also helps to catch those trying to manipulate them
World champion Magnus Carlsen’s dispute with a teenage rival has sparked wild rumours of dirty tricks
Puzzle: find the grandmaster’s winning move
Puzzle: can you find the snag in the solution?
Puzzle: find the hidden mate in two
Puzzle: a tactic every player should know
Puzzle: find Carlsen’s one-move win
Norwegian ‘not motivated to play another match’ after more than a decade at the top
Puzzle: can you mate Black’s boxed and lonely king?
Puzzle: solve this four-mover with just a single line of play
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?
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