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This position looks illegal. Is the king walk seriously best?

Exactly the kind of cursed board that would get cross-posted between /r/chess and /r/AnarchyChess. White to move. Is the king walk actually the point, or is there a cleaner human line?

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Solve it directly on this main board. After each correct move, the opponent reply autoplays and then it becomes your turn again.

Verified SAN line

Last Move Played

15... c5

Stored Continuation

16. Rd1 · 16... Nb6 · 17. g3 · 17... Kb8 · 18. Na5 · 18... Ba8

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White to move

Exactly the kind of cursed board that would get cross-posted between /r/chess and /r/AnarchyChess. White to move. Is the king walk actually the point, or is there a cleaner human line?

Find the next move. After you move, the opponent reply autoplays and then it becomes your turn again.

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Notes

Written in the tone of a cross-posted /r/chess and /r/AnarchyChess thread where the board looks fake until someone posts the engine line. This seeded post is framed as a public discussion board, not as the demo user's own game. The position itself comes from the exact historical PGN of Garry Kasparov vs Veselin Topalov, Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee (1999), sourced from scripts/data/ghost-games-seed.json and linked there via chessgames.com.

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