White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
Notice the rook on g5 being there as a result of coming from a1 by means of a rook lift and then a horizontal slide over to g5. Botvinnik won by: 1.Rxg7+ Kxg7 2.Nh5+ Kg6 [Equally depressing were: 2...Kf8 3.Nxf6 Nxf6 4.Qxf6 Rd7 5.Qh8+ Ke7 6.Bg5+ f6 7.Qxf6+ Kd6 8.Rc1 Rd8 9.Qd4+ Bd5 10.Qxd5#; 2...Kh8 3.Nxf6 Qe5 4.Bb2 Qxd4+ 5.Bxd4] 3.Qe3 Black Resigned as it's over after:3...Nxe4 4.Qh6+ Kf5 5.g4+ Ke5 6.Rd1 Bxg4 7.Qf4+ Ke6 8.Bc4#
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