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We’re finishing our 7th week of chess summer school with our last exercise in following a series of checks through to mate. For those of you who found this helpful, please get in touch. I’d like to hear your experience with these puzzles. This position is of particular interest because a famous grandmaster and chess teacher, Siegbert Tarrasch, won this with a brilliant mate in six; however, there is more than one way to do it. Find either one and you’re doing great!


- Solution: From Tarrasch-Satlzinger, Munich, 1915 (in the middle of World War I!!) went: 1.Qxh7+ Kxh7 2.Rh3+ Kg8 3.Nh6+ Kh8 4.Nf7+ Kg8 5.Rh8+ Nxh8 6.Nh6# Black could have lasted two moves longer with 3…Kh7 4.Nf7+ Qh4 5.Rxh4+ Nh5 6.Rxh5+ Kg8 7.Rh8+ Nxh8 8.Nh6#. The most forcing way was: 1.Nh6+ Kh8 2.Bxg7+ Kxg7 3.Rf7+ Rxf7 4.Rxf7+ Kh8 5.Qe5+ Nxe5 6.Rxh7#

 


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