Legendary game · 1620
400 years old. Still catching players
NN vs Greco — Rome 1620 · Giuoco Piano (C54)
Greco
NN
Rome, sixteen twenty. Gioachino Greco — history's first chess professional — recorded this smothered mate four hundred years ago, and it still catches thousands of players every week. Near the end I'll freeze the board: Black mates in three, and the key move is a queen sacrifice on a square defended twice. Get ready.
The board stops before the key move — you'll have to find it yourself.
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