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#27 · Checkmate in 7

Checkmate in 7 moves #27

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit — Cologne, 1911 · Italian Game, Blackburne Shilling Gambit (C50)

Kostić

Mühlock

Checkmate in seven moves, episode twenty-seven. Cologne, nineteen eleven: Borislav Kostić and the Shilling Gambit.

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