I Will Leave You Speechless With This Combination

January 16, 2022 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Castling Queen-side leads to an epic Anastasia’s Mate! This is a mating pattern which is announced with the help of Rook-Knight cooperation via an open h or a file. The checkmate got its name in a novel by W. Heinse, Anastasia and Chess (1803).
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Gernot Gauglitz vs Srdjan Cvetkovic
Balatonbereny (1987), rd 1
Queen’s Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Variation (D52)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Bg5 c6 6.e3 Qa5 7.cxd5
Nxd5 8.Qd2 N7b6 9.Bd3 Nxc3 10.bxc3 Na4 11.O-O Qxc3 12.Qe2 Qb2
13.Bc2 Qb5 14.Qd1 Nc3 15.Qd2 Ne2+ 16.Kh1 Bb4 17.a4 Bxd2
18.axb5 Bc3 19.Rab1 h6 20.bxc6 bxc6 21.Be4 Bd7 22.Ne5 hxg5
23.Rb7 O-O-O 24.Rfb1 Rxh2+
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