Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 63

White to play and win

D Morschel v G Boulle 1974

Solution

A nice one, which took me one standard British unit of time: not solving it on inspection, I had to go away and make a cup of tea, and whilst sipping it, the solution came to me. 1 Ng5+ Kg8[] 2 Ne4! threatening 3 Rh6 (or 3 Qh6) with mate on h8 to follow, and defending the Pf6. So 2…Kh7[] to defend h6 (or 2…h5, same answer) 3 Nd6! hitting the Re8- as so often in chess, the combination wouldn't work if in the initial position the rook was on d8- small difference, big effect) and after the rook moves somewhere, 4 Nf7! and h6 falls.

The improvement of the knight, dancing from f3-g5-e4-d6-f7 made me smile.

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