Test your chess: Reitstein problem 65

Black to play and win

M Blieden v BE Siegheim 1905

Solution

A somewhat flawed problem, but good nevertheless. The motif to spot is that white's queen is in a net, using Purdy language, and so the question is, can it be trapped?

The answer is not quite, but 1…Bc5! is strong anyway. If 2 dc Rc5 and the queen is indeed netted:

However, better for white is 2 Be3 when 2..Bd4 is more comfortable for black, but he is far from winning.

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