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Both of the players of this game are pretty good. In the illustrated position it's black's move. Black won the game, but only because white managed to resign in a won position. You can see the game here.
2 Comments
Chris Lloyd
April 5, 2017
Quite proud of myself. I saw the sacrifice and then saw it didn't work. Amazing that the guy resigned.
Nicholas Gruen
April 5, 2017
I didn't. Then again I didn't look very hard and hadn't been told the plot :)
Quite proud of myself. I saw the sacrifice and then saw it didn't work. Amazing that the guy resigned.
I didn't. Then again I didn't look very hard and hadn't been told the plot :)