White checkmates in 3 moves.

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Chapter 2 BACK RANK COMBINATIONS

A BACK RANK COMBINATION is based on the enemy King being trapped on the back rank by its own pawns and the fact that the back rank in not protected by a Rook or Queen. Some back rank combinations are simple, as in introductory Diagram 32. Others take two or more moves to set up.

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Answer – Diagram 46:

1.   Ra8+                        Qxb8

2.   Ra/dxd8+                 Be8

3.   Rxe8#

The slash (/) is used to show that either the Rook on the a-file or d-file (Ra/dxd8+) takes on d8.