White to play and mate on his first move.
(Don’t spend too much time on this — it’s a bit of a trick.)
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The white king and queen have changed places, which is impossible if White is playing “up” the board. So he must be playing down — in which case he can deliver mate by capturing the rook.
“It is this sort of problem that gives non-orthodox chess a bad name!” writes Stephen Addison in The Book of Extraordinary Chess Problems (1989). “Problems have been composed along these lines in the past by both Smullyan and Loyd.”
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