Stockfish Can’t Solve This Chess Puzzle 😮

December 7, 2022 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Puzzle FEN:
1rkb4/pNp5/8/2N4p/8/5B2/4K3/8 w – – 0 1

Puzzle Details:
G.M. Kasparyan
4 H.M., Szachy, 1977

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1:50 – Puzzle Solution

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