Another puzzle for an easy Reitstein day

White to play and win

Allan Beardsworth (allanbeard) v Brutaldeluxe, ICC 3-0, 21/5/14

Solution

It is nice when you find crisp tactics in your own games: gives you hope that you are learning from the daily Reitstein exercises. Here, I was barely out of the opening, a Philidor, black having blundered with 10…de5.

1 Bf7+! and after 1…Kf7 2 Qc4+ black has the choice between 2…Kg6 3 Nh4 mate (a nice twist on a standard motif) or 2…Kf8 3 Ng5 when black's best is to lose the queen by 3…Nd5 4 Ne6+, but it is hopeless.

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