Find the winning line: 3 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
This position comes from a game between Richard Réti and Savielly Tartakower, played in Vienna in 1910. It lasted eleven moves and is still taught as an example of what it costs to leave the king in the centre. It began with a Caro-Kann Defence, where Black answers White’s king pawn advance by moving the queen’s bishop pawn one square. Black brought the queen out early and has just taken a knight, but the black king is still in the centre, without . White, on the other hand, has already castled and has the pieces in play. The lesson: when the enemy king stays in the centre and your pieces are already out, look for , even if they cost material. Counting pieces is of little use if the enemy king has nowhere to go.