Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 32

White to play and win

CC de Villiers v D Pick 2000

Solution

Not too hard today, mainly because desperate times require desperate measures. If say 1 Rf2, black mates by Ra1+ and Rb2+!, for example by:

But it is not too hard to find the saving 1 Qf7+!, forcing queens off, and the resultant endgame is winning.

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