Raymond Keene

Chess puzzle | 8 December 2016

issue 10 December 2016

Black to play. This position is from Topalov-Nakamura, St Louis 2014. Black seems to be in big trouble, but how did he turn the tables?
We regret that because of the Christmas printing schedule, this is not a prize puzzle.
 
Last week’s solution 1 Bxh7+

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