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mortimer chess puzzle

A tricky problem by Ernest Clement Mortimer. This position was reached after Black’s fourth move in a legal chess game. Can you reconstruct the game?

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The trick is that the knight on b8 began on g8: 1. Nf3 d5 2. Ne5 Nf6 3. Nc6 Nfd7 4. Nxb8 Nxb8 This is the only way this position can be reached in four moves.