Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 129

White to play: can he defend?

(Not one to spend much time on: not the best of puzzles today)

GW McElhinny v JG Heldzingen 1950-52

Solution

A really odd puzzle, especially because the rubric says white, in this correspondence game, resigned here, and Reitstein's question was what was Black's threat which caused white to resign.

So, the threat is obvious, Rh6, and one is tempted to find some reason why white was wrong to resign, but it doesn't take long to see that white's position is indeed hopeless.

Let's call it a day off.

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