Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 10

White to play and win

E Kromhout v CC de Villiers

Solution

Again not too hard, and it is basically a choice about which discovered attack to make. Since Nf5 only garners a pawn, but gives black the f file and g4 square, it is not too hard to decide upon 1 Ne6! as the stronger move.

After 1…Qe6 2 Be6 Be6 it is just a question of whether white can win the technical phase. Prompt action, for instance 3 Qc5 and if permitted 4 Qe7, before black can build any type of defence, should make it simple enough.

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