NEW DAILY MATCH

1. Ral's Trapped Queens Variant

In this custom position, there are two queens on the board, but both of them are trapped by pawns. The objectives of the position are to develop pieces, sacrifice as little as possible to free up your queen, promote the many pawns on the first 2 files and to checkmate your opponent! There are many strategies of freeing the queen, like just sacrificing a rook right away, but you need to be very careful that the other side does not capture a third or sixth rank pawn resulting in promotion, and in many games, it has been possible to sacrifice a bishop instead, which is less material to sacrifice. Also, there are a few tactics in the position that I did not find out myself until I played this position in a tournament, but I will leave you to find those out!