Chess Puzzle #56073

CHESS PUZZLE #56073

Added by:	charleshiggie
Added on:	15-Feb-12
Description:	Unknown-Giaochino Greco c1630. From "The Guiness Book of Chess Grandmasters by William Hartston 1996
Difficulty:	online chess puzzle #56073
Attempts:	47
Solved:	41 (87%)


Black to move, mate in 4

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15-Feb-12, 23:33

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Hartston comments...

Hartston comments "This final example of Greco's play shows that he was familier with the smothered mate and the combination known to later generations as "Philidor's Legacy". This, however was played 150 years before Philidor was born."

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CHESS PUZZLE #56073