Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 189

Black to play and win, after white plays 1 Qg4? (and 2 Qg7)

D Friedgood v G Lawrence 1975

Solution

1 Nd2 would have been fine, as would 1 Bc5, in and in both cases the game would go on. But 1 Qg4 is a miscalculation: 1….Be3 2 Qg7 (better to play, as white did in the game, 2 fe and just at some stage retreat his queen) 2…Qg5! 0-1: if 3 Qh8+ Ke7 4 Qh7 Bf2+ is terminal, or near terminal- probably followed up by Qe5, Rh8.

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