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White to Play

Pete Tamburro on Mar 12, 2025

Published in Chess Puzzles

Our second installment of our memoriam for Boris Spassky.

From Spassky-Nikolaevsky, Kharkov, 1963

1.Qf5+ Also working was 1.Qh5 Be4 2.Rxf7+ Rxf7 3.Rxf7+ Kg8 4.Rf8+ Kxf8 5.Qf7# 1...Kg7 2.Qg4+ Kh7 3.Rxh6+ Kxh6 4.Rf5 and mate with Rh5 to come even if Black delays by giving up his queen.

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