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[FEN rnb1k1nr/pppp1ppp/8/8/1bB1P3/5N2/PB3PqP/RN1QK1R1 w Qkq - 0 8]

White to move - Find the Solution

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How does Emanuel Lasker, just two years before winning the World Championship, get mated in only 12 moves?  Here's how: Bird,H - Lasker,E Newcastle upon Tyne, 1892 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2 Qg5 6.Nf3 Qxg2 7.Rg1 Bb4+ (Diagram) 8.Ke2  Of course 8.Bc3 and 8.Nc3 each win also. The text is the strongest though.  8...Qh3 9.Bxf7+ Kd8 10.Bxg7 Ne7  Objectively best according to Fritz, although still losing big time, is 10...b6 11.Rg3 Ba6+ 12.Ke3 Bc5+ 13.Kd2.  11.Ng5 Qh4 12.Ne6 mate 1-0

Thanks to Chess Chatter Rob Kruszynski for providing the following information about this game:  "Ken Whyld on page 33 of his book 'The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker' (Nottingham: The Chess Player, 1998) gives the above game as as No. 118, then : "off-hand lightning game Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 1892. C21...Chess Review_ Manchester 8 October 1892, p.48.  Between match games the two played about six games an hour, of which this is one."

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