Reason for choice: This is an amazing problem. It has a perfect threat and two wonderful variations. In both variations black unpins the white queen. The unpinned queen plays sacrificial moves and after that there are battery cross-checks. (Misha).
The judge for the award wrote: "A brilliant and outstanding masterpiece that speaks for itself. Highlights worth pointing out again are the fine quiet threat 2.Qg6, the elegant continuations 1...Rf5/Sf5 2.Qf4/Qh4 (and not the other way round!) and the interesting byplay 1...Pe5 2.Qf5!" (Michael Keller)
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