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A simple mate

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darksquares
Updated: Oct 23, 2008, 12:13 PM | 3 | Endgames

Hi everybody.  I was messing around again.  Here's the problem,  White to play and mate in three.  (There is another square black can move to, but it leads to checkmate in 2.)

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