Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 65

White to play and win

M Levitt v C Danisa 1995

Solution

Not the best of puzzles today, since most sensible things win. The prosaic 1 Nd7+ forces 1…Ke8 (1…Kg8 drops the queen to 2 Nf6+) when 2 Nf6+ Bf6[] 3 Qd8+ Rd8[] 4 gf Nc6 5 Ng5! wins.

5 Ng5 is just a small tictac relying on the trick 5…Ne5 6 f4 and black collapses, so that black has to do something else, when 6 f4 follows, and white is a pawn up with a dominant position.

However, this is prosaic. So, instead 1 e6! which hardly needs calculation, since it provides a space for the Nf3 to jump into e5. If 1…Rc6 biffing the Q, then white now wins the black Q by the previous Nd7+/Nf6+ manoeuvre.

Iin the game black played 1…Bf6 2 gf fe but resigned after 3 Ne5.

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