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Great chess players have a way of making it look easy. However, making it look easy requires a lot of work. For instance, just to get to the feature position in today’s puzzle, Boris Spassky had to spend hours grinding out a winning position. (Not to mention the years of hard work to become an elite Grandmaster in the first place!) So why today’s position isn’t overly difficult, the process of its creation was.

White to move and mate in 2 (Spassky vs. Kakageldyev, 13th Soviet Team Championship, Riga 1975).
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