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It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out that White will double his rooks on the eighth rank to threaten mate. It also doesn’t take much to figure out Black will move his queen to allow the king to escape to g6. The question is: what then?


Solution:

A GM missed this. It might have had something to do with not seeing the fourth move: 1.Rcc8 Qe4 2.Rh8+ Kg6 3.f5+ exf5 4.Qxh6+ gxh6 5.Rag8#

 


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