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White to move and win - Solution

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Today's position is from Backtalk with Canadian Master Dan Scoones: This position appeared in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegames: Combinations, which was published by Chess Informant in 1980. Our hero Georg Marco was one of the greatest annotators of the nineteenth century, with a number of fine tournament books to his credit.  However, his play in this game, while pretty, was not as accurate as it might have been: 1.Bb5!(?) Qxb5? This is far too compliant.

Marco-Salter, Vienna 1900 White to play and win

Black can muster something of a defence with 1...Nxf4!? 2.gxf4 Qe6 3.f5 Qh6.  He should still lose after 4.Qxh6 gxh6 but there is a lot of technical work remaining for White. 2.Ne7+ Kh8 3.Qxh7+! Kxh7 4.Rh1 mate By the way, this mating pattern (see the diagram to the right) is known as Anastasia's mate.  The official story is that it first appeared in an 1803 novel entitled Anastasia and Chess, but apparently this attribution resulted from an error by a later authority.

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