Christmas tree problems
A Merry Christmas to all our readers! What better day than to pose a couple of traditional Christmas tree problems? Because of obvious design limitations such problems are never too difficult, but these may test you for a few minutes:
It’s White to play and mate in two (in both problems)
1. Nxc4
dxc4 Qxc4#
Re5 Rxe5#
Rxe3 Qxe3#
fxg4 Qxg4#
2. f8=N+ Kxf6(forced)
dxe8#
dxe8=N#.
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