Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 124

White to play and win

G Wall v M Keserovic 1995

Solution

Straightforward: 1 Ra8! and mates: 1…Ra8 2 c8(Q)+ Rc8 3 Ra8 mate.

Black can only avoid mate by ruinous material loss- for instance 1…Rf3+, 2..Ne6.

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