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White to move and win  -  Find the Solution

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What Might Have Been... Ed. Lasker - Moll (1912) This position demonstrates that old familiar refrain, what might have been... Lasker played 1.f4 and lost after 1...f6.  Later he discovered what might have been...

1.f6 gxf6 2.f4 Kd4 3.g5 fxg5  [3...hxg5 4.h6]  4.fxg5 Ke5  [4...hxg5 5.h6]  5.gxh6 Kf6 6.Kc2  Zugzwang!  Whatever Black does, he must now lose.  If the King leaves the corner, the pawn queens; the c-pawn cannot be defended.  Black has run out of moves.  6...c3 7.Kxc3  And the king must now leave the pawn to it's own devices.

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