Test your chess: Reitstein problem 18

White to play and win

Solution

Not too hard, but a bit of calculation needed. 1 Qh6! with the main idea being 1…gh 2 Nf7+ Kg8 3 Nh6 mate.

It is somewhat harder to calculate the effect of declining the Q, with 1..Be5, though not too hard to see white still wins, for instance by 2 Be5 Qe5 3 Qh7+! and white emerges a piece up.

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