White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
The composer’s (Kopac, 1974) solution has a certain sense of humor about it. The king marches down the board, loses a knight, and then marches up the board the way it came and wins. 1.b7 Rh6+ 2.Kc5 Rh5+ 3.Kc4 Rh4+ 4.Kc3 Rh3+ 5.Ng3 Rxg3+ 6.Kc4 Rg4+ 7.Kc5 Rg5+ 8.Kc6 White could have gone wrong with 2.Kd5 Rb6; or 2.Kd7 Rb6; or 2.Ng6 Rxg6+ 3.Kb5 Rg2; however, there is a prosaic win with 2.Kc7 which does give the study a flaw. Still, we like the down and up king march.
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