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IM Jay Bonin has been the most active chess player in America for some years. In the last quarter century, he has played over 18,000 rated tournament games! He has a great book now out, called Active Pieces. The strategic and tactical instruction is excellent. In the back of the book he has positions from his games. See if you can figure out what he did.


Solution:

A dazzling attack: 1...Rxa2+ 2.Kxa2 Ra8+ 3.Kb1 c2+ 4.Kb2 Ba3+ and mate next move.

 


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