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WHITE: K-a1; Q-d1; R-b3; R-f8; B-h2; B-a6; N-d5; N-h4; BLACK: K-f2; Q-f5; B-b8; White to move and checkmate black in one move. Which of the following is NOT that move?

	Q-f1
	R-b2

	B-g3
	Q-e2

 

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Question 210 pts

WHITE: K-h3; Q-h6; Pawns: g3, h4; BLACK: K-e5; Q-c2; Pawn: g5; Black to move and checkmate white in two moves. What is its best first move? (The best first move is the one which enables black to checkmate white in the second move! So, you have to think forward from your choices given below and also consider how white will respond to your first move! If your choice is correct, then black will checkmate white on the second move regardless of white's response.)

	Q-h2
	Q-f5

	Pawn to g4
	Q-c8

 

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Question 310 pts

WHITE: K-a2; Pawn g7; BLACK: K-c2; N-b1; B-a1; Black to checkmate (NOT stalemate!) white in two moves. What is its best first move? (The best first move helps black to checkmate white in the second move. So, you have to think forward from the choices given below and also consider how white will respond to your first move! If your choice is correct, then black will checkmate white on the second move regardless of white's response.)

	K-c1
	K-c3

	B-b2
	B x g7

 

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Question 410 pts

A famous guitarist was in Las Vegas on a concert tour with four of her favorite students Anne, Bonnie, Caitlin, and Diana. While she was briefly away from her suite in a Strip casino, her expensive concert guitar was stolen. The police suspected that one of her four favorite students must have stolen it and moved it to another location. Each of them made one statement as follows.  The guilty one's statement is false and the other statements are true. Who stole the guitar? Hint: Assume that a given student is guilty and ask whether, as a matter of logical implication or consequence, all the other statements become true.

Anne said: I was in Pahrump at the time of the theft.

Bonnie said: Caitlin is the culprit.

Caitlin said: Bonnie's statement is false.

Diana said:  Caitlin's statement is true.

	Anne is the thief.
	Bonnie is the thief.

	Caitlin is the thief.
	Diana is the thief.

 

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Question 510 pts

In "A Question of Survival" Holmes gives Watson a hint: " A lion and a bear were fighting furiously and devouring each other. Finally each had eaten the other up, and there was nothing left of either." (Chess Mysteries, p. 27). Assume that the lion represents white and the bear represents black. What does this hint imply for the solution to the problem in "A Question of Survival"? (Pl. consult my notes on this chapter in the module on chess.)

	There must be a surviving white piece in a black square.
	There must be a surviving white piece in a white square.

	There must be a surviving black piece in a black square.
	There must be a surviving black piece in a white square.