31st March 2025

Selected by Michael McDowell

Gerald F. Anderson

Chess, 1949

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Mate in 14

An amusing idea, which Gerald Anderson named the "if at first you don’t succeed" theme.

The solution will appear here on Friday 4th April 2025.