Madonna and Child between St. Peter Nolasco and St. Peter Pascasio by Pompeo Batoni.
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White to move and mate in 4.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
Beyond that I have nothing. Except that I used a small body cam on a tripod to record a couple of games. Then, using Blender, I cropped the video to the board, changed it to BW (which I don’t think saved much space) and accelerated the playback. It was a good learning exercise, too, because I also learned to do two new things with Blender.
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Rb6+, P(a7)×b6
Qxb6+, Kc1
Be6+, Qd7
Qxc7#