Find the winning line: 2 moves of yours. Make any legal move: if it is not the right one, it is taken back and you can try again.
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About this position
The name comes from a German novel, Anastasia und das Schachspiel, by Wilhelm Heinse, in which this position appears. Heinse apparently took it from a text by the Italian Giambattista Lolli. The pattern needs three pieces: a knight covering two of the king’s escape squares, one of the king’s own pawns blocking another, and a rook coming down the edge file to deliver . It turns up when the king has taken shelter in the corner and that file can be opened, sometimes at the cost of a lot of material. What to remember: a knight near a cornered king is a very dangerous piece even if it seems to attack nothing. If you have one there, see whether you can bring a rook to the edge file. And if the cornered king is yours, do not let that file open.