Genrikh Kasparyan
Shakhmaty v SSSR 1953
4th commendation

White: Kg4, Rg8, Rh8, Na1
Black: Kf7, Ra3, Rh3; pawns - c3, c4

Win
1.Rf8+ Ke7/i 2.Re8+ Kd7 3.Rd8+ Kc7 4.Rc8+ Kb7 5.Rb8+ Ka7 6.Ra8+ Kb7/ii 7.hRb8+ Kc7 8.Rc8+/iii
Kd7/iv 9.Rd8+ Ke7 10.Re8+ Kf7 11.Rf8+ Kg7 12.Rg8+ Kh7 13.Rxa3, and the capture wins only now
because the reply to c3-c2 is capture on the h3 square with check.

i) The  manoeuvre of the white rooks that we now see will be familiar from 069. The logic behind the
black king's traverse is not to let the white rook quit the h-file with gain of time. This is why Black
avoids, for example, Kg7 2.hRg8+ Kh7 3.Nc2, when White wins.
ii) Now that a white rook has been decoyed to the a8 square the black king can work his way back to the
king's flank, where he anticipates coming to no harm from the attentions of both white rooks. [But who
is the decoyer and who the decoyed?]
iii) It is too soon to capture: 8.Rxa3? c2!, for example 9.Kxh3 c1Q 10.bRa8 c3 11.Ra2 Qe3+ 12.Kg2
Qd2+ 13.Kf1 Qd3+ 14.Ke1 Qe3+ 15.Kd1 Qd3+ 16.Kc1 Qf1+ 17.Kc2 Qe2+ 18.Kxc3 Qe3+ 19.Kb2
Qd4+, when the white king has no escape from the checks.
iv) Kb7 9.aRb8+ Ka7 10.Nc2 wins.
