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Due to some technical difficulties, part II of our previous puzzle will have to wait until Friday. Here’s a quickie: from Saidy-Lombardy, 1969. Black played one move and White Resigned. What was it?


1….e4!and whether White exchanges queens or moves his queen away, the knight is lost.

 


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