Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 184

Black to play and win

A Nel v V Blasl 2004

Solution

The concentration of pieces in the centre makes this hard to calculate, except in the same breath it is clear that the motif is that white's queen is in a net, to use CJS Purdy's terminology.

1…f4! and if 2 Bf4 Bg4 3 Qe3[] Bd2+ winning the queen; 2 Nf4 Bg4 again netting the queen; so 2 Be4 is relatively best, when 2…fe! 3 Bd3

I could only see to here, thinking 3…Bd2+ keeps control and white's queen might still be in a net, and indeed it is…with 4…Nh5 winning the queen immediately.

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