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#14 · Checkmate in 4

Checkmate in 4 moves #14

The King's Gambit — a free pawn that costs the game · King's Gambit Declined, Classical (C30)

Maillard

Tchinenoff

Checkmate in four moves — episode fourteen. Paris, nineteen twenty-five. White opens with the King's Gambit. Black says no thanks — and leaves a pawn on e5 for the taking.

The board stops before the key move — you'll have to find it yourself.

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