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    Welcome to the first chess assignment of the CSC Extension Programme 2025. This week we have 15 puzzles for you. They get harder as they go on so don't worry if you find any too difficult. After you complete the form there is a lichess study which will allow you play out the moves on an online board and check the correct answers.
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  • 1. Find the best move for black (there are two correct answers)
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  • 2. Find the best move for white (there are two correct answers)
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  • 3. Find the best move for white
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  • 4. Find the best move for white
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  • 5. Find the best move for white
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  • 6. Find the best move for black
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  • 7. Find the best move for white
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  • 8. White has mate in 2 here. What is the first move? To get the right answer you must think carefully about how you will follow it up.
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  • 9. White to play and mate in 2. What is the first move?
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  • 10. White to play and mate in 2. What is the first move?
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  • 11. White to play and mate in 3. What is the first move?
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  • 12. This is a notorious position in which former World Champion Ding Liren blundered allowing Magnus Carlsen to deliver a spectacular mate in 2. Find Magnus's first move.
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  • 13. White to play and mate in 2. Find the first move.
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  • 14. Black to play and mate in 3. Find the first move.
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  • 15. White to play and mate in 3. Find the first move of the sequence.
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