Long Distance Runaround
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Played on an unbounded chessboard, “infinite chess” feels familiar but can lead to some strange situations. In this position White threatens to give checkmate by advancing his rook one square. Black can avoid this fate by throwing his rook any finite distance to the north, as shown. Now when White’s rook gives check, Black’s king has room to retreat up the board. But it’s still curiously doomed: By advancing alternately his queen and then his rook by two squares each, repeatedly, White can now harry the Black king indefinitely northward after the departed rook. Because each of White’s moves gi
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