Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 169

White to play and win

B. Nelson v E Kromhout 1978

Solution

1 Qg7+! Qg7[] 2 Rg7+ Kf8 3 Ng6+! etc

If instead 1 Rf7?? white loses: 1…Re3+ 2 Kg4 Rg1+ 3 Ng2 Rg2+ 4 Kf4 Re4+ and a discovered check then mops up.

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