White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
The use of the pawns to give themselves up in a clearance maneuver to open the h-file is great: 1.Rg8+ Kxh7 [1...Rxg8 2.hxg8Q+ Rxg8 3.Qxg8#] 2.Rg7+ Kh8 3.h7 and Black Resigned because of: 3...Qh6 [3...Rbd8 4.Rg8+ Kxh7 5.Rh1+ Bh3 6.Rxh3+ Qh6 7.Qg7#] 4.Rg8+ Kxh7 5.Rg7+ Kh8 6.Qg5 Qxg5 7.R7xg5 Bf5 8.Rxf5 Kh7 9.Rh5#
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