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Black to Play

Pete Tamburro on

Published in Chess Puzzles

Black is lost, being the exchange down, but in Maric-Glilgoric, Belgrade, 1962, Gligoric came up with a game winning move. What was it?


Solution:

It’s remarkably simple and yet beautiful: 1…Rb3!! Wins any way you look at it. A great back rank mate theme.

 


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