It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle # 93
Black to play and win
Santa Cruz v Uhlmann, Havana 1964
Solution
Very similar to Puzzle number 90, the alignment of the Qa4 and LPDO Qg4 are the key to the combination- Purdy's jump-biff motif again.
1…d3! and if 2 cd Rb2+, and the R can't be taken, else 3 …c3+ discovers an attack on the LPDO. If 2 c3 then 2…Qc2+ and 3…Qb2 mate.
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