Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #247

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

White to play and mate Black

Doda v Titkos, Madarska 1961

Solution

A very pretty puzzle today.

How to mate on the h-file? The answer is to start with a nice deflection:

1 Re7!! Qe7[] 2 Qb2+ Qg7[]

3 Rh7+! Kh7[] 4 Qh3+ and 5 Qh6mate.

FEN

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