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As a chess teacher, I consider teaching my students to recognize certain common patterns so they can win games without expending too much clock time trying to figure things out. Even the greats need to recognize these patterns. Sometimes they forget! Take this case: Fairhurst-Reshevsky, Hastings, 1937-38. Reshevsky as Black missed the pattern—oddly enough one of the very oldest in chess.


1...Rc1+ 2.Bxc1 Qa7+ 3.Kh1 Nf2+ 4.Kg1 Nh3+ 5.Kh1 Qg1#

 


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