Black to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
16...Bxg2+ Since this was correspondence chess, White had lots of time to figure out what he didn't consider and resigned. What did he see? Here it is: 17.Kxg2 [17.Kg1 Rg6 18.Bf4 exf4 19.Re1 Bxf2+ 20.Kxf2 Qh4+ 21.Ke2 Re6+ 22.Kd2 Qxe1#] 17...Qa8+ [I.A. Horowitz used to call this an "airplane check."] 18.f3 Rg6+ 19.Kh3 [19.Kh1 Qxf3+ 20.Rxf3 Rg1#] 19...Qc8+ 20.Kh4 Bd8+ 21.Bg5 [21.Kh5 Qh3#]21...Bxg5+ 22.Kg3 Be3+ 23.Kh4 Rh6+ 24.Kg3 Qh3# Wow!
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