Test your chess: daily chess puzzle

White to play and win

AWB-Kyev, ICC 3-0 blitz Sept 14

Solution

No prizes for guessing the opening, my beloved (but rubbish) Morra gambit against the Sicilian.

1 Bf7+! (Examine all biffs: also ignore threats, imagine they can't possibly be implemented) and white wins.

If black takes the B, then 2 Qc4+, and if Be6, 3 Ng5+ Kg6 4 Rd5! etc; if after 2 Qc4+, black retreats his king to the back rank, then the LPDO Bc8 drops off, as LPDOs tend to do.

There are plenty of other lines, but similar carnage occurs: eg 2…Kg6 3 Nh4+ and mates.

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