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January 9, 2019April 30, 2023 GM Vlado Kovačević642

Thanks to the “rule of the square” it is easy to deduce that in previous position White to move wins.

The square is getting smaller as the pawn advances:

Ater 1.c5 the square has shrunk. Now black king cannot get into the sqaure and the pawn queens!

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