Test your chess: Reitstein problem 12

Black to play and win

D Yellin v A Savinson, Johannesburg 1967

Solution

Fairly straightforward, or probably easy. There is a clear back rank motif in play, and biffs 1…Qe2 or 1…Qd5 come to mind more or less immediately.

Both win. In the game, black played 1…Qd5; perhaps slightly stronger is 1…Qe2 since white's best (2 Rf1) loses him a whole queen: but really they are equivalent, both overwhelming.

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