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12th Chess Olympiad:Moscow, 195627 Critical Positions

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1) Teodor Ghitescu

vs Gyoergy Szilagyi

9/10/1956

2) Abbas Lotfy

vs William Dunphy9/10/1956

White Mates in 4.

3) Cesar Boutteville

vs Kazimierz Plater

9/11/1956

4) Laszlo Szabo

vs Moshe Czerniak

9/12/1956

5) Glicerio Badilles

vs Vincent Maher9/13/1956

6) Andreas Dueckstein

vs Cesar Boutteville

9/13/1956

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7) Harry Golombek

vs Nikolay Minev

9/13/1956

8) Arinbjoern Gudmundssonvs Willem Muehring

9/13/1956

9) Sieghard Dittmann

vs Otto Morcken

9/15/1956

White Mates in 3.

10) Rudolf Teschner

vs Gyoergy Szilagyi

9/15/1956

11) Bal Chandra Mhaiskarvs Pedro Borras Blasco

9/16/1956

12) Triantafilos Siaperas

vs C Zhugder

9/16/1956

White Mates in 2.

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13) Bela Soos

vs Aage Ingerslev

9/16/1956

White Mates in 5.

14) Walter Ader Hausmanvs Per Lindblom

9/17/1956

15) Chandra Mhaiskar

vs Abdolhossein Navabi

9/20/1956

16) Julio Bolbochan

vs Ludek Pachman

9/21/1956

White Mates in 2.

17) Andreas Duecksteinvs Ingi Johannsson

9/21/1956

18) Gideon Stahlberg

vs Aage Vestoel

9/21/1956

White Mates in 3.

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19) Sigurgeir Gislason

vs Jozef Boey

9/11/1956

Black Mates in 3.

20) Svein Johannessenvs Anton Kinzel

9/11/1956

21) Edwin Bhend

vs Jonathan Penrose

9/16/1956

22) Abbas Lotfy

vs Carlos Benitez

9/17/1956

23) Matti Rantanenvs Georges Thibaut

9/17/1956

Black Mates in 2.

24) Svein Johannessen

vs Jozef Boey

9/22/1956

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25) Rene Letelier Martner

vs Andreas Dueckstein

9/22/1956

26) Gedeon Barcza

vs Aleksandar Matanovic9/24/1956

Black Mates in 3.

27) Kazimierz Plater

vs Per Lindblom

9/24/1956

Black Mates in 4.

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1) 1.Qe4

White Mates in 4.

2) 1.Qxh6+ Kxh6 2.Nf5+

3) 1.Re1 if 1...Re6 2.Nc7+

4) 1.Rg4

5) 1.Qf6

6) 1.Nxg4 Qxg4 2.Qxb5

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7) 1.Ng5 if 1...Rxc1

2.Rxc1 g6 3.Bxb7

8) 1.Qf7

White Mates in 3.

9) 1.Rxg8+

10) 1.Qxc5 Nxc5

2.Rxd8+ Bxd8 3.Bxg4

11) 1.Rxd4

White Mates in 2.

12) 1.Ng5

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White Mates in 5.

13) 1.Bxf5 gxf5 2.g6+ Kh6 3.Bc1+

14) 1.Qxd4 Rxd4 2.Nf5

15) 1.Rxb3 Qxb3 2.Rb1

White Mates in 2.

16) 1.Qxf7+

17) 1.Qxg7+ if 1...Kxg7 2.Ne8+

White Mates in 3.

18) 1.Qh7+ Qxh7 2.Rf8+

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Black Mates in 3.

19) 1...Qxg1+

20) 1...g5 2.Bxc6 bxc6

3.Qh6 Qf7 w/4...Bf8

21) 1...Qxe5 2.Nxe5 Ne3

22) 1...Qh5+ 2.Kg1 Ne2+

Black Mates in 2.

23) 1...Qg1+

24) 1...Bd4 2.Qxd4 Nf3+

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25) 1...g5 w/2...Nd5

Black Mates in 3.

26) 1...Nf3+

Black Mates in 4.

27) 1...Bh2+ 2.Kh1 Rxf1+