Chess puzzle: A romantic solution to a romantic position

Hello Everyone,

Chess has many mysteries and sometimes we can unlock them in a middle game… sometimes not. Here is a nice romantic position that you would love to get in a middle game. But can you find the equally romantic solution?

You can run the answer in the flashplayer below but do think for some minutes before checking out the solution.

Perlasco-Grassi, Como, 1907


From Alexandra Kosteniuk’s
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