HUMOR I was out on a good morning walk when I heard a screeching sound—like nails on a chalkboard. I cringed, and then looked around to find it was a common alloy cat sitting on a neighbor’s porch rail. She was carefully cleaning her stainlesssteel paws with her raspy tongue. With a body of pure metal, her every move creaked like an old garden gate. Stacked at her feet were the beak, bones

The Chess Club publishes weekly puzzles to keep the love of the game alive, since members cannot currentlymeettoplayinperson. This week’s puzzle is checkmate in three moves. White moves first. Any answer by black, and the white’s third move is checkmate. The solution to this week’s puzzle’s first move is Rg8; the white Rook moves from G7 to G8.