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Solution for: Task B

It would have been better to take a closer look and see the ``mate in two'' with Nf4+. This powerful double-check leaves no escape for White. On Kf1 the simple Qh1# follows...

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...while Kh2 is answered by Qg2#.

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Underlining my comments from the first task, I would like to point out that this whole combination was only possible because White opened the diagonal g2-c6 by moving his knight. That was where I should have asked myself: ``What has changed in the position?'' But I didn't...

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