That's the spoiler to spoil all spoilers! I cut out my right eye to not see the solution - I am a countryman of van Gogh - and made a selfie of it for the archives - you do not want to see me painting. Life ain't easy for an addict to chess.com.
Chess.com's Weekly Study: August 7th 2016
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The last moves of the solution are very similar to tablebase wins in the K+R+B vs K+R ending.
The soft spot of the composition is the motionless statue on h2. The author might as well have kept it in his pocket until its presence was required for a technical endgame variation. Edit: well, it does prevent Rf1 but that is a thin jusitfication.
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