It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle # 39

White to play and win

Addison v Steinmeyer, New York 1963

Solution

A rest day today. 1 Rb5! is the first biff to examine, and with the Qd7 LPDO, the pin (after 1…Rb5[]) 2 Qa4 is equally obvious. If 2…R5b7 then white exchanges queens and then picks up the now LPDO Rb8.

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