How does white checkmate black in two ways?

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Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I'm a chess YouTuber for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/user/chessdifference/

White to move.  There are two ways that white can checkmate black.  What are those two ways? This position showed up in a recent game of mine.  

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Nice puzzle, Lauren happy.png

Avatar of TreyTheGreat199

I may be confused, but aren't there three ways to mate?

Avatar of olsionh

Nd6 and exd7.

Avatar of thegoosefactor

Nd6, Ne6, and exd7

Avatar of JamesAgadir

exd7#, Nd6#. Nf6+ isn't checkmate because the king can take the bishop seen as the knight gets in the way of the queen. Qxg6+ give away the queen. Those are all four legal checls. So there are only two checkmates (like you said)

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Nice puzzle