Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 88

White to play and win

AN Rubinsztein v KF Kirby 1969/70

Solution

1 Qc4! threatens smothered mate (it also threatens 2 Qg8 mate); and black can't avoid it. For instance 1…Bd7 2 Qg8+ Rg8[] 3 Nf7 mate.

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