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A cool tactic

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Here’s a cool tactic I saw while playing through the notes of Jusupov-Petrosian, Vrbas 1980:

Jusupov-Petrosian Vrbas 1980
White to play and win. Highlight over the text below to see the solution.

Answer: 1.Be6 Kh8 2.Rxf6! gxf6 3.Rxf6 Rxf6 4.Qxe8+ Qxe8 5.Bxf6# - a very nice mate with the B’s