Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #6

Another puzzle from Dragoslav Andric’s 1981 book “Matni Udar”.

White to play and win

-the famous Evergreen game

Anderssen v Dufresne, Berlin 1852

Solution

1 Re7+! Ne7 (1….Kd8 is better, surviving to a lost endgame in the longest line, given by Kasparov in Megabase 2012)

2 Qd7+!!

2…Kd7 3 Bf5++ Ke8 4 Bd7+ and 5 Be7 mate.