#2 Handling more difficult threats

First of all, thank you for your kind words and feedback in the comment section and through private messages.

One feedback that kept cropping up is that you want more challenging threats. Usually, these involve finding one difficult move, accurately calculating a short sequence, or both. There is a chapter on this, and I would like you to try the puzzle below: 

It was meant to be challenging and not too obvious. But if it was, then I would have to crank up the difficulty .

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