It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle # 88

White to play and win

Black plays 1…Bc8-d7

Liersch v Plesse, 1964

Solution

As Purdy exhorts, examine all pins, nets and ties. Here, the Black queen is in a net, and it is not too hard, after first rejecting 1 Be4, to find 1 Bc4! Qc6[] 2 Bb3 and the Queen is trapped.

(Whilst not hard in a puzzle, I think in a game I could easily have missed it).