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Train/Pawn on the Seventh: Zugzwang, Not a Chase

Pawn on the Seventh: Zugzwang, Not a Chase

The pawn is one step from queening, and Black guards d8 twice, with the king and the knight. It looks like a fortress. On the seventh rank it is not: the defender runs out of moves, and exactly one bishop square springs the trap.

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