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The Victor Mates With a Pawn

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Updated: Aug 6, 2007, 7:36 PM | 13 | Amazing Games

Victor Knorre was an amateur chess player (he was an astronomer) who beat some of the strongest players in the world.  Here is a game in which he defeats Johannes Zukertort, one of the strongest players in the world. Knorre sacrificed a piece, then mated Zukertort with the f-pawn.

 

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