Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 48

Black to play and win

CC de Villiers v W Kobese 1998

Solution

By inspection, or by examine all biffs, 1…R8h4! is natural, and in fact white then resigned. If the rook is captured, then 2…Rh2+ and wins the queen, and then mops up.

White has no desperadoes or other funnies, so it is game over.

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