White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
The game, Alexander-Szabo, Hilversum, 1947 went 1.Nf6+ gxf6 [Did you consider all this: 1...Bxf6 2.exf6 g6 3.Qe3 will mate via h6 and g7,; 1...Kh8 2.Qe4 g6 3.Ng5 h6 4.Qh4 h5 5.Ba3 Bxf6 (5...Bxa3 6.Nxh5) 6.Rxf6 Nc6 7.Raf1 Nxe5 8.Bxf8 Qxf8 9.Rxg6 Nxg6 10.Qxh5+ Kg8 11.Qh7#] 2.Qg3+ Kh8 3.exf6 Bxf6 [3...Rg8 4.fxe7+] 4.Ne5 Bxe5 [4...Bd7 5.Rf3 Bxe5 6.Bxe5+ f6 7.Raf1] 5.Bxe5+ f6 6.Rxf6 Black Resigned. One likely continuation would be 6...Rxf6 7.Rf1 Nc6 8.Bxf6+ Qxf6 9.Rxf6. A classic game!
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