Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 37

Happy days are here again. Regular readers of my blog will know that about a month ago I could no longer do my daily blog based on Leonard Reitstein's second book of puzzles from South Africa. Stupidly, I had either left it behind or lost it when last at our holiday home, here in Kas, Turkey.

We arrived late last night and, even before I had a drink in hand, I had checked the bookshelves to find, alas, no Reitstein; and then, in the dark, went to the storeroom and hallejujah!, I had for some unknown reason left it with some of our leave behinds. So, my holiday started with the best of spirits. The book will be guarded as gold until the entire series has finished.

Normally, I write may blogs several weeks in advance (no, I am not always up at 7am UK and on Twitter), the excellent Blogsy ipad add enables writer's to plan publication times and dates. So now I have some work to do, to get back ahead. Fortunately, today's and the next couple are easy enough.

White to play and win

Black plays ….Rg7 in this position:

S Bhawoodien v Y Aranov 2003

Solution

Straightforward, and even if it weren't solved on sight, examine all biffs would find white's first two moves.

1 Qg7+! Kg7 2 Bd5+! and after K moves, 3 Bc6 bc, 4 Rb1 is easiest, forcing black's rook to passitivity at b8, when white's two pawn advantage wins simply.

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