White Mates in 2

Solution

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Today's position was taken from issue #236 of Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje español. You don't have to speak Spanish to enjoy this position, from the great 14th-century Portuguese chessplayer Pedro Damiano:   White to mate in two 1.Qa7+ Kxa7 2.Ra6   matel

After we published this position, several readers, led by Rich Zuzzolo, wrote in to point out the mate-in-one, 1.Rxb8.  I checked my the source above, and the diagram above exactly duplicates that source diagram.  I can only assume the diagram is in error though, and Rich offers the following suggestion, "Put a Black queen on F4 or G3 and the puzzle makes perfect sense."  So I did, in the diagram below:

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