Test your chess: Reitstein problem 21

Black to play and win

H Saadien v D Friedgood, 1960

Solution

A nice, fairly straightforward puzzle. The idea of getting through to b2 is fairly obvious, and the main difficulty is to view the resultant position and decide if there is a killer blow, and there is, with Rb4! So, the solution is 1…Bd3+ 2 Nd3 Qd3+! 3 Qd3 Rb2+ 4 Ka1.

From the above position, 4…Rb4+ is natural, controlling d4, with the pretty point that 5 Qd4 is met by 5…Rc1+, 0-1.

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