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| | Loman's move, Jan Timman, and the double Prokes. |
 | | The point of 51...Rxg2+ is that the rook, moving away with check, vacates the square where the pawn threatened to capture, and since pawns cannot move to such squares, White would have lost a vital option. |
 | | After a while, as Timman is a top-notch composer as well, we turned to talking chess studies, and I tried to remember my old double-Proke outline, but did not really manage. |
 | | I published this in my chess column, Timman prepared to use it for an article about the Proke-manoeuver but then, as so often happens with endgame studies, it was cooked. |
| www.xs4all.nl /~timkr/chess/proktxt.htm (2870 words) |
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