Chess Puzzles - Win it!

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Try to solve the chess puzzles first in your mind. This helps to improve your imagination. In a real game you are not allowed to move the pieces around, but must solve the problems in your mind. It is hard in the beginning to imagine a certain positions in your mind and keep moving to another position without touching pieces. But it is very important that you learn this.
After you have played the variation just mentally, replay it on the chess board here and compare your mental images with reality.
Work out the defending moves of your opponent or you miss something. What can your opponent do if you move this? If he does that, I do this... and so on.

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