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Pete Tamburro on

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I like to, from time to time, use Fridays as “drop back” days. I take a forced mating position and then go back to earlier in the game to make it a bit more challenging. When you know there’s a forced mate, it’s easier to find, but getting to that position from the earlier position requires more thought. In this position, we have dropped back so you have to get to move 5 to see the first move of the mating sequence.


From Nimzovich-Alapin, Riga, 1913. 1.0–0–0 exd4 2.Bxd4 Nc6 3.Bf6 Qxf6 4.Rhe1+ Be7 OK, here we are. 5.Bxc6+ Kf8 5...Bd7 6.Qxd7+ Kf8 7.Qd8+ 6.Qd8+ Bxd8 7.Re8#

 


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