Test your chess: Reitstein problem 95

White to play and win

L Wilken v K Dreyer 1955

Solution

Again, my Purdy reading helped here, solving this one instantly.

If I had to pick one piece of advice Purdy gave beyond all which for me is memorable, was his advice to always look out for two pieces on the same rank separated by one file: here, the Qc7 and Ne7: potassium cyanide he called it, especially as here where there is a pawn on the file in between, as here, on d5.

So, 1 d6! Rd6[] 2 Rd6 Qd6[] 3 Rd1 skewering the Q and B, so the Bd7 drops off, 1-0.

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