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Pete Tamburro on

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A handy little endgame lesson to learn. White can save himself here. How?


When you’re on the losing side, you always look for stalemate possibilities: 1.c8=Q+ Rxc8 2.b7 Rc7 3.Ka8 Rxb7 Can’t let White queen the pawn. Stalemate. Draw.

 


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