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1912 / Breslau
Stepan Levitsky — Frank Marshall
Marshall places his queen within reach of two pawns and the opposing queen. The video examines all three answers to 23…Qg3.
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Video, explanations and animations by RookHabit. Pieces by Colin M. L. Burnett, distributed with python-chess (GPLv3+).
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1962 / Rostov-on-Don
Rashid Nezhmetdinov — Oleg Chernikov
The bishop draws out a rook and the rook draws out the king. A knight fork wins the queen and transforms the material balance.
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1898 / Riga
S. Lurie / E. Wagenheim — J. Bastin / O. Bolotow
The rook blocks its own bishop’s diagonal. The queen draws the king out, and the rook clears the diagonal with double check before a protected mate.
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1928 / London
Alexander Alekhine — A. Fletcher
The queen takes a knight and is offered to a pawn. Then bishop and knight alternate checks, a rook falls and the knight delivers mate.
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