his game was posted on reddit.com under the title "The most beautiful bullet game ever played", which you can read here: http://redd.it/15oyjp

 

   In the position on the right it is Black to move. 

   Mate in 2

 

   Answer below.

 

   If you have been reading my stuff for a while, you know that I am a big fan of chesscafe.com. 

 

   From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChessCafe.com:

 

ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history.

It contains about twenty columns, each of which appears monthly. They are staggered so that about five new columns appear each Wednesday. The authors include some well-known chess players and instructors, such as Yasser Seirawan, Dan Heisman, Mark Dvoretsky, Susan Polgar, and Tim Harding. Previous contributors include Tony Miles, Tim Krabbe and Lev Alburt.

 

   Chesscafe.com is currently having its 2012 "Book of the Year" contest at http://www.chesscafe.com/Reviews/botyr1.htm.

 

   I am honored that Tactics Time! 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009TBYA7U) is a candidate for Book of the Year, and would love your vote!

 

   There are two rounds of voting.  The first round (this one) narrows it down to three candidates.  Then a second round of voting determines the winner.

 

   If there is another book that you liked better or that helped your chess game, I certainly won't be offended if you vote for that, and if there is a book that was written in 2012 that isn't on the list that you feels deserves to be on the list, you can nominate that book as well. 

 

   I don't want to anyone to "stuff the ballot box" or anything like that.  Some people, like my friend Jeff Baffo who grew up in Chicago, consider this to be a "standard operating procedure" :-) 

 

   Just vote (once) for whatever book you liked the best that was written in 2012, and if you liked TT1001, I would appreciate your vote!

 

[Event "ICC bullet 1 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2001.03.07"]
[White "Schmaltz, Roland"]
[Black "Har-Zvi, Ronen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C26"]
[WhiteElo "2546"]
[BlackElo "2512"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1. e4 Nc6 2. Nc3 e5 3. g3 Bc5 4. Bg2 Nf6 5. Nge2 d6 6. h3 Bb6 7. O-O O-O 8. Kh2
Re8 9. f4 exf4 10. gxf4 Ng4+ 11. Kg3 Nf2 12. Rxf2 Qh4+ 13. Kxh4 Bxf2+ 14. Ng3
Re6 15. Kg4 Nd4 16. f5 Rg6+ 17. Kf4 Rxg3 18. Qf1 g5+ 19. fxg6 Ne6+ 20. Kf5 Ng7+
21. Kf6 Rxg6+ 22. Ke7 Re6+ 23. Kd8 Bb6 24. Nd5 Re8# 0-1

   Answer:

   21...Kf8 is the only move that leads to a mate in 2.  White cannot stop 22. ...Rxg6#

 

   Happy Tactics!

 

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