White to move and mate in two #751 — To Have and Have Not

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White to move and mate in two #751 chess puzzle — White to move and mate in two. The chess puzzle is published on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. It is customary for advanced players to wait till midnight ET before posting the full solution. Before then, they provide some stats about the solution (e.g., the number of distinct checkmate moves), help guide others, and sometimes post hints. But, there are no hard-and-fast rules, feel free to post comments as you please.

Though not considered to be film noir, which is one of my favourite genres, 1944's To Have and Have Not is one of my fav films from that period. Though it is considered to be derivative of Casablanca, that doesn't take much if anything away from it, and it is also the first film featuring 'Bogie and Bacall' working together and becoming romantically involved off-screen. It was Lauren Bacall's first film, made when she was only 19. It features a screenplay written by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, loosely based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Here is the storyline, provided by a reader on IMDB:

Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie (Walter Brennan), are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be. After a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay, they are forced against their better judgment to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Germans to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning (Lauren Bacall), a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days. —Mark Thompson

Cinematic trailer for To Have and Have Not.

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