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First chess composition. 1000 Degen to the first who gets this right! I think it's quite hard. White to move- what's the best continuation?
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Took me a while.. here's my thought process: 1. I assume we’re looking for a draw - no material 2. black king has 1 square available to escape - e6 (and leads to mate for white with the queen and rook). 3. The last thing is that our king literally has no escape squares and so that made me look for stalemates.
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so 2. leads me to h8=N+ because black has to take with bishop or rock (doesnt matter), so let's say Rxh8 Rg7+, which black has to take, otherwise its mate this move or after Re7. After sacrificing all our pieces we can just chase the king around with queen checks black takes and its a draw or we repeat the position.
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