Test your chess: Reitstein problem 80

Black to play and win

Mate in 5

M Kolnik v KF Kirby 1953

Solution

The hardest thing for me on this problem was to find why it was mate in five, not four, but it is. 1…Qh2+ 2 Kh2[] Rh6+ 3 Kg2 Bh3+ 4 Kh1! (4 Kh2 Bf1 mate is what I thought) Bf1+ 5 Nh5 Rh5 mate.

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