{"id":258,"date":"2023-09-21T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2023-09-24T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T17:49:47","slug":"answer-chess-problem-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/?page_id=258","title":{"rendered":"Answer: Chess Problem 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"535\" height=\"535\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-22.png 535w, http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-22-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-22-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>White to move and mate in 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key: 1. Qb8 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If 1. &#8230;Rxb2; 2. Qxb2 mate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If 1. &#8230;R moves elsewhere on file; 2. Nc4 mate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If 1. &#8230;R moves on rank; 2. Ra2 mate (Yes, 1. &#8230;Rc4 leads to 2 different mates: Ra2 and Nxc4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: 1. Qd6 stalemate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/?page_id=173\">Back to chess problems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/\">Home<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/?page_id=164\">Articles<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/?page_id=167\">Puzzles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White to move and mate in 2. Answer: Key: 1. Qb8 If 1. &#8230;Rxb2; 2. Qxb2 mate If 1. &#8230;R moves elsewhere on file; 2. Nc4 mate If 1. &#8230;R moves on rank; 2. Ra2 mate (Yes, 1. &#8230;Rc4 leads to 2 different mates: Ra2 and Nxc4 Note: 1. Qd6 stalemate Back to chess problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenrshalom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}