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White to move and mate in two #416 - 2023 U.S. Chess Championship [1]

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Date: 2023-10-10  

The 2023 U.S. Chess Championship games are being held in St. Louis from October 5 to October 18.

The event is a 12-player round-robin, where every player plays once against every other player on the field, one round per day. The games start at 2:00 pm EDT each day. The player with the max points will be crowned U.S. National Champion.

The 12 players in the men’s championship —

More details at www.uschesschamps.com/...

The 12 players in the women’s championship —

The results for the men’s championship after round 4 (not including today’s round 5 games) are shown below.

Here is the YouTube link to Round 4. Links to livecast and other past rounds can be found at www.youtube.com/...

See www.uschesschamps.com/… and www.chess.com/… for more details.

Now let’s think like a champion to solve today’s prize-winning chess puzzle composed in 1898, by Arthur Ford Mackenzie (1861-1905). Mackenzie was born and died in Kingston, Jamaica, having been blind for nearly a decade and in very poor health. An obituary on page 217 of the 21 July 1905 issue of La Stratégie described his talent as ‘un phénomène extraordinaire’.

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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