White to Play
Published in Chess Puzzles
Although we do mostly “play and win” positions, it’s good to remember that sometimes chess players in dire straits have to try and salvage a draw. Osmanagic was in such a fix against Grandmaster S. Gligoric in Yugoslavia in 1963.
Solution:
We got this position from Verkhovsky’s “Draw!”It’s a perpetual check after 1.Qxg6+ fxg6 2.f7+ Kh7 3.Rh3+ Bh6 4.Ng5+ Kg7 5.Ne6+ Kh7 [5...Kh8 6.Rxh6#] 6.Ng5+.
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