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White to move Mate in two #261 [1]

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Date: 2023-02-10  

*all chess puzzles provided by DKos member lobachevsky*

Some Dutch place names in New York

Battery Island (a batterij was once stationed here)

Bronx (New York, after Jonas Bronck)

Broadway (Manhattan, after Breede Wegh, broad road)

Brooklyn (New York, after Breukelen)

Bushwick (Brooklyn, after Boswijk)

Coney Island (Brooklyn, Konijneneiland, Rabbit Island)

Cornelia Street (Manhattan, after Cornelia Herring)

Dutch Kills

Dutch Street (Manhattan)

Flushing (Queens, after Vlissingen)

Gravesend (Brooklyn, after 's Gravesande)

Greenwich Village (Manhattan, after Grenen wijk)

Harlem (New York, after Haarlem)

Hells Gate (Helle Gadt, dangerous currents, East River)

Hempstead (New York, after Heemstede)

Holland Tunnel, Holland Avenue

Long Island ("Lange Eylandt" 1614)

Nassau Street (Manhattan)

New Dorp (Staten Island, dorp means village)

New Utrecht Avenue (Brooklyn)

Spuyten Duyvil Creek (Spuitende Duivel, Spitting Devil)

Staten Island (after Staten Generaal)

Wall Street (Manhattan, city wall, Nieuw-Amsterdam)

Yonkers (after Jonker, Jonkheer and jonge Heer)

2016 Thomas Lindbergh, "Tuna on White hold the Mayo"

So ok anyway, comments please on the nitty gritty, yadda ya.

Maybe, Bedford-Stuyvesant...or what nobody expects...

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