One of the most beautiful drawing combinations

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Black to move and draw. There's only one way to draw the match. My opponent didn't find it fortunatley but when I analyzed it I was absolutely stunned. Makes for a nice study I think. I wonder what rating difficulty that would be, I didn't see it at all.

Try to find it before you turn on the engine.

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The black king is in stalemate so something like Qe1+ Kh2 Qh1+ Kxh1 Rd1+ Kh2 Rh1+ Kxh1.

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Yep, that's it. Well, maybe the pattern is fairly standard but I never encountered it before and it seems so ridiculous to simply make kamikaze sacrifices with your last two remaining pieces.

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It is cool. You don't see this kind of thing very often but if the king is stalemated there may be a chance to pull it off. Keep it in mind if things are getting desperate. It's happened in a few GM games also Evans - Reshevsky is one I remember seeing.

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ok

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Black has three equally good moves to start, so technically speaking this is not interesting.

The idea has appeared to thousands of games (let alone studies).

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Ok, I see it's not as as special as it appeared to me because of my little chess experience. Just the idea of saclkng all your pieces is beautiful. I'll get my coat.

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It's a beautiful sequence, even if people have seen it before. That just means they're taking it for granted 😉