Test your chess: daily chess puzzle #9

White to play and win

K Dreyer v GS Wallis 1956

Solution

Fairly easy today. The winning move, 1 Re6! came to me 'on inspection' (i.e. the moment I saw the position) and all I had to do was check that black had no sneaky defence like 1…Rd8 (which loses to 2 Bd5) or 1…Bf8 (same win, 2 Bd5). It is therefore simply that if 1…Ke6, 2 Qd5 mate.

If the move hadn't come to my intuitively, then, as is so often the case, CJS Purdy's examine all biffs would have revealed it.

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