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Posted in Literature, Puzzles by Greg Ross on March 23rd, 2008
Vladimir Nabokov composed chess problems. Here's a clever one from 1932: "White retracts its last move and mates in one."
This is an instance of retrograde analysis: Of the many legal moves that White might just have made, only one can be revised to yield an immediate mate. Can you find it?
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