Steinitz-Lasker WCC 1894, game 6, move 53. d6

 why can't the black queen take the pawn on d6?

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The shadows lengthen

like leaves

But the distant deadly Archer volleyed back, "God of the earthquake- -you'd think me hardly sane if I fought with you for the sake of wretched mortals . . . like leaves, no sooner flourishing, full of the sun's fire, feeding on earth's gifts, than they waste away and die. Stop. Call off this skirmish of ours at once- let these mortals fight themselves to death."'. Illiad XXI.526

look at this queen sac

 

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