Test your chess: Reitstein problem 55

White to play and win

D Friedgood v DNL Levy 1978

Solution

I solved this one by 'inspection': immediately seeing that the black queen and king are in forking distance, so that exchanging everything on f6 can be followed by Ne8+. So 1 Rf6 Rf6 2 Rf6 Rf6 3 Qf6+ Kf6 4 Ne8+ and 5 Nc7, and the knight can't be captured (or, if it scurries to a8, and the king follows it, white will queen one of the king side pawns).

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