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As you can quickly tell from looking at the diagram, this was one wild game between Spassky and Polugaevsky in Moscow, 1960. My friend,and former US Corresponence Champion, Jon Edwards dug this one up for an article in Chess Life for Kids. How did Boris continue here?


Solution:

1.Kf6 Rf8+ [1...Qxd4+ 2.Kf7 Qe5 3.Qg6#; 1...Re8 2.Qh4+ Kg8 3.Qh8#]2.gxf8=N+ Bxf8 3.Qg6+ Kh8 4.Qg8#

 


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