It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle # 160

White to play and win

Black plays …Bd3? here:

Gufeld v Suetin, Tbilsi 1967

Solution

In a game, it might not be obvious, but being a puzzle, 1 Rf7! begs to be played.

If the Q is captured, then 2 Rg7+ Kh8[] 3 Re7+ de[] 4 Rb7 Bf1[] 5 Nf1, and White emerges a piece up. If the Q isn’t captured, say 1..Rf7, then 2 Qg4+ and 3 Rf7 is equally gruesome.

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