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Thursday, January 29, 2015

The PapaLouk Mate!

I was lucky enough and it gave me a great pleasure to be the first to witness this particular kind of mate!
It's not like that this has never occured before, but the way it made its appearance left me completely stunned!
You will understand what  I am talking about in a few moments!
But let's take this from the beginning!

One afternoon my good friend and extremely strong and creative player
Gm Loukas Papadimitriou came with a beautiful game of his to show it to me!
"Nik, I want you to look at this game because something is special about it"
"Ok, go on"

 and he started showing me the game till this position was reached:

White to play ..
What would you do?