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(our weekly chess puzzle)

Count Vladimir Pochuchyev versus Sheikh Hassan Bin Mohammed.

Stockholm 1993.

Black is attacking in strength and White needs to come up with something good. The initiative will swing to his opponent if he doesn't find an aggressive countering move. White, to move, eventually found an unorthodox way to unsettle the Syrian grandmaster. Can you see what he came up with?

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Solution: Count Pochuchyev leapt out of his seat, punched Sheikh Hassan in the face, then gave him a root in the bawls as he was going down.