Black to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
If you impulsively went with 1...Rxh4, hoping for cooperation, then you missed 2.Qb8+ Kf7 3.Qxb7+ and White wins. In 1937, Slobodjan mated Miesowicz with 1...Qh1+ 2.Kxh1 Rxh4+ 3.Kg1 Rh1#
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