Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 112

Black to play and win

C Hoek v JJ Steenkamp 2004

Solution

1…e4+, is based on the tictac 2 Re4? Qg4+ 3 Kf2 fg+, and either white wins a rook or the pawn queens (4 Ke3 Qe4+, pieces off, and gh etc).

So white must retreat his king after 1…e4+: if he goes to Kf2, then Qh3 threatens a horrible skewer on h2. If instead 2 Kg2 f3+ 3 Kf2, and now again, 3..e3+, with a threat of a skewer: 4 Re3 Qh3 and the game is over. White has other defences to 1…e4+, but they each lose similarly.

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