White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Alekhine - Prat,M. Rule Number One is “look at all checks and captures.” The whole idea of the check is to open the f-file for the rook on f1 22.Qh5+ Nxh5 23.fxe6+ Kg6 24.Bc2+ Kg5 25.Rf5+ Kg6 26.Rf6+ Kg5 27.Rg6+ Kh4 28.Re4+ Nf4 29.Rxf4+ Kh5 30.g3 and now any move is followed by Rh4 mate. An exercise we always recommend to increase your chess vision is to imagine this whole line in your head and keep repeating it until you get it 100 percent right.
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