Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #118

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

White to play and mate Black

Schories v Leonhardt, Bad Pyrmont 1933

Solution

Again, as yesterday, optically hard, but, once seen, very pretty.

1 Nc7! and the LPDO Qa6 forces 1…Qd3, when 2 f7+ mates, because the Nc7 cuts off the Rb7.

The game continued 2…Kg8 3 Ne6+! Re6[] 4 Qf8 mate which is pretty; my solution was 3f8(Q)+! Rf8[] 4 Ne6+ Kg8 5 Rf8 mate, which is also pretty, but one more move.

FEN

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