It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle #329

White to play and win

Velimirovic v Csom, Amsterdam 1974

Solution

Not too hard today: 1 Bf7+!Rf7 2 Qe8+ Ne8 3 Re8+ Rf8 4d7 Qd6 5 Rf1 1-0.

The flashier 1 Qf7+? loses: at the end of the similar line, Black can play Qh2-b8 defending both d8(Q) and d7*e8(Q).

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