White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
Wolf-Spielmann, 1923 finished with 1.h3 Qxh3 2.Qxf3 and Black resigned as taking the queen allows a back-rank mate. BTW, I dug this out of the newly published—first time translated into English—The Hypermodern Game of Chess by Tartakower. One of the greatest chess books ever written from Russell Enterprises, Inc.
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