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Here’s another test of your skills at working out all the lines of a mating attack.


Solution:

Our game started out this way -- Shukurova-Papp, Spain, 1999: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 d6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.f4 Nd7 5.Nf3 c5 6.Bc4 h6 7.0–0 cxd4 8.Nxd4 a6 9.f5 g5 10.Bxf7+ Kxf7 [10...Kf8 11.Ne6+ Kxf7 12.Qh5+ Kf6 13.Bxg5+ hxg5 14.Qxg5+ Ke5 (14...Kf7 15.Qg6#) 15.f6+ Kxe6 16.Qd5#]11.Qh5+ Kf6 [11...Kf8 12.Ne6#] 12.Qg6+ Ke5 13.Nf3#

 


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