Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 80

Black to play

White calculated 1…Ra8 2 Rg8+ Rg8[] 3 hg(Q)+ Kg8[] 4 Kf6 Kf8 5 g6 Kg8 6 g7 and the pawn promotes. What did he miss?

PJ Foley v A Van Tets 1991

Solution

Like buses, easy problems come in threes, since the last two puzzles were also easy. Today, 1..Rf6+! and it is stalemate.

Comment

In the initial position, white had just played 1 h6-h7. It is not entirely trivial to work out how to win instead, playing against an engine. I have just done so, and there are some interesting lines.

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