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Although we do mostly “play and win” positions, it’s good to remember that sometimes chess players in dire straits have to try and salvage a draw. Osmanagic was in such a fix against Grandmaster S. Gligoric in Yugoslavia in 1963.


Solution:

We got this position from Verkhovsky’s “Draw!”It’s a perpetual check after 1.Qxg6+ fxg6 2.f7+ Kh7 3.Rh3+ Bh6 4.Ng5+ Kg7 5.Ne6+ Kh7 [5...Kh8 6.Rxh6#] 6.Ng5+.

 


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