Pawns are Good. Everyone Work Together.

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Tip One: In this position white has mate in one, it is because White's pawns and bishop can work together to mate the black king. Notice how blacks pieces are not really doing anything constructive. (Answer below)

When playing chess try to keep your pieces working together. In this problem when white plays mate, each of the three white pieces (other than the king) are playing a part. Pawns while the weakest of the pieces can be used to defend each other, control parts of the board (so that no opponents pieces can find home there) to promote to a queen or to mate the king.