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Black is clearly on the edge of disaster with White threatening to take the rook and check on e7. In one of the great saves in chess history, how did Black emerge victorious?


From Krasnow-Miller, Moscow, 1950: 1...Rd1+ 2.Kh2 Rh1+ 3.Kg3 [3.Kxh1 Qf1+ 4.Kh2 Qxg2#]3...Qc3+ 4.Kh4 [4.Kf4 g5#; 4.f3 Qe1+ 5.Kf4 g5#]4...Rxh3+ 5.gxh3 g5+ 6.Kxh5 Qxh3#

 


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