Puzzle 419535: White to win
Puzzle 419535: White to win
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Leningrad Chigorin Memorial Leningrad, 1951 Nikolai G Kopylov - Vassily Smyslov
Leningrad Chigorin Memorial Leningrad, 1951
This is a Chess 960 position. Click your king to see which rooks can castle. Drop the king on the rook to castle.
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Hint
Main motif of this puzzle: Dovetail mate
In dovetail mate, a queen checkmates the king. The queen is diagonally adjacent to the king. The king is not on the edge of the board. The two escape squares not guarded by the queen are blocked by its own pieces.
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