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White to move and mate in two #392. The Universe has a Question? [1]

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Date: 2023-08-15  

We gaze at the stars and peer into deep space billions of light years away all the way to the dawn of creation to seek “the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.”

But does the Universe have the answer or does it have its own questions? This image taken by the JWST near a pair of actively forming young stars known as Herbig-Haro 46/47 seems to answer that question with a Question?!

In any case, we all know what the answer is, right?

Hint: it is the value of x3 + y3 + z3, where x = -80538738812075974, y = 80435758145817515 and z = 12602123297335631. news.mit.edu/...

Here is the full image of Herbig-Haro 46/47, its young stars and the surrounding gas located 1,470 light-years away in the Gum nebula. The question mark is located in the highlighted area.

Today, we offer a simpler puzzle, with just 11 pieces, composed by Comins Mansfield in 1962. Hopefully, this puzzle will prove to be less enigmatic that some of the previous ones.

P.S.

The chess puzzle is published on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

It is customary for advanced players to wait till midnight ET before posting the full solution. Before then, they provide some stats about the solution (e.g., the minimum number of distinct checkmate moves), help guide others, and sometimes post hints. But there are no hard-and-fast rules; feel free to post comments as you please.

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