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Chess.com's Weekly Study: July 17th 2016
Wonderful endgame! I stopped adding up the number of (knight) forks appearing in all the variations but I bet they outnumber those in queen Elizabeths tableware.
@n9531l: Another beauty! There are some interesting lines after 7. ... Rd1 8. Nd3! but white wins all the same.
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Starting with 2016, we will be posting a Weekly Study, courtesy of Yochanan Afek, Grandmaster for composing endgame studies. These challenging positions are designed to stimulate (and improve upon!) your creativity, depth of calculation, pattern recognition and pure imagination.
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