Black and White

loyd retrograde puzzle

By Sam Loyd. White is kicking himself — he has just completed a move, and realizes that he could have given mate instead. What was his move, and what was the mate?

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White has just captured a black bishop on b8 with a pawn on a7, which he promoted to a bishop. If instead he had advanced the pawn to a8 and promoted it to a bishop or a queen, it would have given mate. From Willard Fiske, Chess Tales & Chess Miscellanies, 1912.

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