SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
It is hard to believe that the position below is from a game between 2 gms, but it is true! The Black King is centralized on a board filled with hostile pieces. Certainly not the kind of thing Steinitz meant when he wrote ”The King is a fighting piece.”
Your task, should you accept it, is to deliver mate to the Black King in exactly 7 moves. Good luck!
gm ROBSON
[Event “11th Aeroflot Open A”]
[Site “Moscow RUS”]
[Date “2012.2.7”]
[Round “1”]
[White “Jobava, Baadur”]
[Black “Robson, Ray”]
[Result “1-0”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 Nc6 4. Nc3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nxc3 7. bxc3 Bg7 8.
Bd3 O-O 9. Ne2 b6 10. h4 Na5 11. h5 c5 12. hxg6 hxg6 13. e5 cxd4 14. cxd4 Nc6
15. Be4 Qd7 16. Kf2 Ba6 17. Qa4 Bb7 18. Bh6 Rad8 19. Qa3 Nxd4 20. Bxg7 Kxg7
21. Qe3 f5 22. Qh6+ Kf7 23. Qh7+ Ke6 24. Qxg6+ Kxe5 25. Rad1 Rg8 26. f4+ Kxe4
27. Nc3+ Kxf4 28. Rh4+ Ke5 29. Re1+ 1-0
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