Test your chess: Reitstein problem 9

White to play and win

AJA Cameron v EC Hooper, SA Championship Cape Town 1906

Solution

Fairly straightforward. If you look for ways to crash through, you will see either 1 f7+!, which mates in 4 ( the line I immediately saw) or 1 Re6+! (which I then saw, and which mates one move faster). Or, 1 Rd7 which is also decisive, though black can stumble on with 1..Bc4- hopeless of course.

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