Test your chess: Reitstein problem 124

Black to play and draw

White played 1 g2-g4 in the positon below

MC Rubery v P Gems 1985

Solution

An interesting problem. I got to the solution by the process of elimination, and, even when I found the saving move, 1…Ng5!, it wasn't 'obvious' why it was so good, though I could tell that it was: quite an inarticulate way of saying that the positon is strange. Anyway, by analysis rather than any other means, it can be seen that white can't prevent both pawns being taken: game drawn.

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