It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle #266

Black to play and win

Padevsky v Polugayevsky, Kapfenberg 1970

Solution

Quite a nice problem today, especially after 1..Qe4+ 2 Qg4 g5+! discovers an attack on the LPDO Rh7 – another reminder, if one is needed, of the benefit of Purdy’s maxims.

Also, if 2 Qg3, then 2…Rg1+ not only skewers king and queen, but mates after 3 Kf2 Qe1 mate, or 3 Kh2 Qh1 mate.

In the game, Polu played 1..Qf2+ and eventually lost.