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While browsing through Lev Alburt’s Chess Training Pocket Book II (quite as good as the first!), I ran into this position which requires you to think through several lines. It’s from Volkov-Rublevsky, 2007.


Solution:

What I liked about this is that the play with the rook and knight is not typical and the idea of using the second rank weakness as a theme is not a frequent event. Also, did you consider both the rook move and the queen coming back? 1...Rh4 2.gxh4 Nf4 3.Rf2 [3.Qf2 Nh3+ 4.Kg2 Nxf2 5.Rxf2 Qxd1] 3...Qxd1+ 4.Rf1 Qc2 5.Qf2 Nh3+ 6.Kg2 Nxf2 7.Rxf2 Qg6+

 


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