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Black to Play

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OK, it’s back to the classics. This one shows Black biting back against the King’s Gambit. The game, Minckwitz-Flechsig, Leipzig, 1883, went as follows: 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.c3 f5 6.Ng5 exf4 7.h4 fxe4 8.Nf7 Qe7 9.Nxh8 Ne5 10.Bxg8 Nd3+ 11.Kf1 f3 12.gxf3 exf3 13.Qxf3 and now Black sees that 13...Qe1+ 14.Kg2 Bh3+ 15.Kxh3 Nf4+ 16.Qxf4 Qxh1+ 17.Kg4 0–0–0 18.Be6+ Kb8 19.d4 Rxh8, although chasing the white king around, just loses because there’s no mate. How did Black solve that problem?


Black just changed the sequence a bit 13…Bh3+ 14.Rxh3 [If 14.Qxh3 Qe1+ 15.Kg2 Qf2# or 14.Qg2 Qe1#] 14...Qe1+ 15.Kg2 Qg1#

 


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