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The late, great chess writer, Fred Reinfeld, used to love to publish “from the brink of defeat” chess positions. This is one of them. That c-pawn looks decisive. What do you do?


Solution:

It’s a mate in two with 1.Rh3+ gxh3 2.g3#

 


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