Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 140

Black to play and win

White played 1 Qf4?? here: why was this a mistake?

V Huang v M Fidos 1984

Solution

White could have kept the edge, by say 1 g3, but instead his 1 Qf4?? is a gross blunder, losing his queen to a standard manoeuvre: 1…Rg2+ 2 Kh1[] Rg1+! and the queen loses her protection.

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