Test your chess: daily chess puzzle

After a short pause of a few days, whilst I decided which puzzle book should be my next series, having finished Leonard Reitstein's second book of South African puzzles, I have now chosen. I wanted a pre computer era, out of publication book and have chosen the 1976 edition of It's Your Move, by Rudolf Teschner and the late, great, Tony Miles.

From the book's preface, Rudolf did the lion's share of the work- 316 of the puzzles were from his 1972 German edition with others added by him later, with Tony adding 28. But it really doesn't matter who provided them, a puzzle is a puzzle.

I only played Tony, Britain's first Grandmaster, once, and played miserably. Still, it had a nice finish, which is today's puzzle. I will start blogging the book's positions tomorrow.

Black to play and win

Allan Beardsworth v Tony Miles, 1984

Solution

1…Rf3! 2 Qf3 Be4! and the LPDO queen drops off.

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