White to Play and Win!

Pete Tamburro on May 11, 2008

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We give our last tidbit (a favorite problem of V. Lenin!?) from Treasure Chess by Bruce Pandolfini. Extra credit question: What famous actor actually played the character "Bruce Pandolfini" in what movie?

Solution:

1.Kb7 Kb4 [1...a1=Q 2.Bf8#] 2.Bxd4 wins as the bishop can give itself up when the a-pawn queens and then White will queen his pawn with an easy mate to follow.

Extra Credit: Bruce was played by Ben Kingsley in Searching for Bobby Fischer. Why Kingsley chose a Scottish accent for a New Yorker, and an Italian named one at that, apparently had something to do with a play he had just come from performing, and didn’t quite lose the first accent!

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