White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
Beginners may be too hasty to apply their new knowledge of opposition by playing 1.Kh5 Kh8 2.Kh6, gaining the opposition but stalemating their opponent. Some may see the clever point of this position: 1.h8=Q+ Kxh8 2.Kh6 and wins the opposition the right way and wins the game.
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