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An orthodox chess problem in which White must checkmate Black King in three moves.
Chéron, André vs Mate in 3 moves 1-0 Feuille d’Avis de Lausanne
1930

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1. Bb8 d6
1… d5 2. Rc7 Kxh2 3. Rh7#
2. d5 Kxh2 3. Rh4# 1-0

Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating! Garry Kasparov
2017
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly. Daniel Stellwagen
2010
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
The competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer. Andrey Filatov
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking. Anatoly Karpov

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