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Chess Daily is our puzzle supplier in the chess realm, created by NTS NEWS’ parent company (NTS), and we’re offering a Chess Daily+ pass to unlock the full potential of Chess Daily. Currently, NTS NEWS only shows chess puzzles from the company, but Chess Daily has many other services to offer, including:

• TIPS & TRICKS Tips and other skills you can put to play in games (e.g how to execute a perfect “smother” checkmate).

• ONE-ON-ONE GAMES One-on-one chess matches, personally against our Chess Daily team members.

• ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING GAMES Going through a game with a Chess Daily expert, where they throw in tips and good moves throughout.

• CHESS HISTORY & OTHER CONTENT More details about the interesting, complicated realm of chess across the globe.

If you’re an avid reader or a dedicated NTS NEWS fan or collector, our digital issues are an ideal way to experience the publication. For a small fee — or completely free if you’re one of our founding members — subscribers gain access to one of our prized issues in a clean, easy‑to‑read digital format. It feels like flipping through a traditional newspaper, making it perfect for reading on any device, printing for your archive, or sharing with fellow enthusiasts.

But what exactly is inside a digital issue? Before NTS NEWS became a Substack publication, it actually began as a print‑on‑demand and digital newsletter released every fortnight. Each edition followed an issue‑by‑issue model, building the foundation of what NTS NEWS would eventually become. Purchasing a Digital Issue gives you a curated window into that early era — a compilation of our first articles, experiments, and editorial voice. It’s a chance to see where we started, how our ideas evolved, and how those beginnings shaped the publication you’re reading today.

Black has set up devious traps to divert White's attention away from the real target. Despite these clever distractions, White can ignore the noise and end the game instantly.

THINK. CALCULATE. EXECUTE.

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Hello, and welcome to today’s Chess Daily! Today, we’re looking at a middlegame checkmate opportunity - rare, considering usually pieces intercept at this stage - using the classic yet sly smother mate. When the king is surrounded by protective pieces, it also smothers it in an impenetrable wall, which - in some cases - is too thick.

Enjoy!

Are you prepared to be mystified by our complex, multi-layered, intricate images? Viewers would, if we didn’t tell them beforehand, immediately conclude that the images were identical, as they are so similar it’s unfathomable there’s a difference.

Spot one difference in each photo, then scroll to immediately reveal the answer. Enjoy!

Welcome to our weekly riddle program, where we gather subscribers to see if they can solve our near-impossible, mind-bending and overall perplexing jokes and riddles. Answers are listed on a seperate page - leave your score in the comments section!

Thank you for accepting our grand invitation to our Weekly Puzzle. As a founding member, you officially have access to every Weekly Puzzle article. For our first theme, we’re introducing you to an exclusive “random” crossword, with quirky clues and an oddly-shaped crossword, that we present to you to solve.

Answers are revealed later in the article. Enjoy!

Welcome to ⭐️ THE VANISHING ARTIST - BONUS ⭐️ ! This is a follow up from our previous article, The Vanishing Artist - if you haven’t yet read it, we recommend you read it before looking at this bonus post:

⭐️ Read The Vanishing Artist! 🎨

The following images depict a typical life scene - whether it’s at a grocery store, a garden or a cinema, Mr Liu Bolin is hiding somewhere - so I guess all there’s left to say is, ‘Find The Vanishing Artist!’

Hello, and welcome to NTS NEWS’ “Echoes” program. We decided that, whilst we write and edit our latest article (detailing the wonders of North Korea), we’d momentarily pause the plentiful stream of content and instead provide subscribers with archived favorites.

We’ll share a small snippet of some of the most intriguing, informative articles here on this page, and provide a link to the full article if you find it interesting. Please note that whilst this post is free, any article links will direct you to a different page and the specific article will determine whether the article is free or premium.

NTS NEWS has, for a while, stayed within the boundaries of good writing, puzzles and possibly even trivia videos. We decided to upgrade this range and start our first-ever interactive subscriber event, named Subscriber Spotlight. Hence the name, Subscriber Spotlight intends for our users to be starred.

Subscriber Spotlight will officially begin in August this year, but in the build-up to the grand event we will take applications from potential subscribers. In August, we’ll post one exclusive article that will highlight every spotlighted subscriber.

For just a very small amount of time, NTS NEWS is (finally) offering real, physical merchandise. Water bottles, circular stickers, ovular stickers, t-shirts, hoodies, mugs - it’s all there in our all new “Luminous Merch” range. Instead of boring you with endlessly loquacious text, we’ve decided to include a few visual aids.

The inexorable nature of death has been relentlessly challenged by humans, who refuse to believe there isn’t a way to prevent or postpone the event we dread our entire lives. Scientists have managed to cure diseases, cleanse water and achieve a number of other notable things that have allowed us to live for up to 100 years - but for some people, this is not enough.

Experts have deemed immortality technology closer than we think. Recent breakthroughs in AI have sparked interest in eager scientists trying to find small windows into the world of immortality.