Black to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
Because he is so well-developed, Black can offer up the knight right off the bat and follow it up with a devastating rook sacrifice. 1...Rg5 2.Qxd7 [Hopeless is, for example, 2.Qh3 Re2 3.Nf3 Rexg2+ 4.Qxg2 Rxg2+ 5.Kxg2 Qf5 6.Bd2 Nf6 7.Rh1 Qg4+ 8.Kf2 Ne4+ 9.Ke2 Ng3+] 2...Rxg2+ 3.Kxg2 Qg5+ 4.Kh1 [4.Kh2 f3+ 5.Qxd6 Qg2#] 4...Qh4+ 5.Kg1 Qg3+ 6.Kh1 Re2 7.Qd8+ Bf8 and White Resigned.
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