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The objective
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What winning actually means
Black has a queen and a rook. White has one rook.
By material alone, Black is winning. But chess does not end when one side runs out of pieces — it ends when a king cannot escape. And right now, in this exact position, White wins on the next move.
This is what the game is actually about.
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