Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 226

White to play and win

I Njobvu v J Mitchelmore 1996

Solution

A rest day today. With black's king in a net, his queen is tied to defending c8. So 1 Ra7! deflects the queen from her task, and it is all over. 1…Rg5 has to be checked, but can easily seen to be hopeless.

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