Cordingley puzzle 173 #chess

Black to play and win

Solution

An easy one, unless you are sitting at Nuri's beach, Limangazi, Kas, Turkey where the pattern of light made me assume that the piece on a7 was a pawn…so I worked on black being a piece down.

Clearly, there are some back rank mating threats, and also the Qb2 is in a net, but 1…Qe1+ doesn't quite work- white can slip away to a2, and neither does 1…Qh4, when simply 2 Bg3 is sufficient. So, look again at the book, at last notice it is a rook on a7, and the 1…Qe1+ combination now works a treat.

I am reminded of the old adage, I think attributed to Ruy Lopez, so seat your opponent with the sun in his eyes.

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