Test your chess: daily chess puzzle #56

White to play and win

HE Price v J Vogel 1966

Solution

This one took me a while: in British unit of measurement terms, the time to boil, brew and drink a cup of tea. Alas, for a while I didn't attack the problem methodically, but tried to make the startling (startlingly bad) 1 Qh6 work, and then playing the slow 1 g4 (which Stockfish shows as +9), but is slow, until returning to Purdy basics, and seeing that black's Queen is LPDO, and that the Queen is tied to defending the Rf6. That was all that was needed to find the slight sidewards move 1 Qg5! when it is all over. White threatens 2 Nf6+ and if 1…Re6 white has various wins, including 2 f6 threatening the queen, threatening Qg7 mate, and threatening Rh6 mate.

A nice puzzle

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