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Cool Chess Puzzle #9 - Alexey Troitsky

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This is an endgame study by Alexey Troitsky that was published in "500 Endspielstudien", 1925. This composition highlights a basic fork/deflection tactic in multiple variations of very simplified rook versus rook ending.

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