How to force him to do it? December 31, 2008
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Selfmate in five

A second selfmate and not too easy despite the relatively few pieces. It’s reasonable to suppose that Black’s five moves will be to push both his pawns to the seventh rank, but it isn’t easy to see how to arrange White’s pieces to force the mate.

Problems selected and annotated by John Nunn.
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