White to Mate in 2 - Composition by Alfred Berman

for those that don't know chess notation or aren't that familiar with chess

::: spoiler here's the solution: it's white's turn, the solution is:

1. white moves the knight from e8 to f6
2. black king takes the knight (moves from e5 to f6)
3. white moves knight from c3 to d5, causing checkmate

This creates checkmate condition because there are two pieces causing check, the white knight at d6 and the white bishop at b2:

• black can either move the black pawn at a3 to take the white bishop at b2
• or black can move the black pawn at c6 to d5 to take the white knight

but because black can't do both in a single turn, or otherwise block the check from both pieces, it's a checkmate - there is no way out of it :::