Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #253

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

Black to play and mate White

Bahtijar v Liang, Indonesia 1961

Solution

Quite a nice interference: 1…Re2!, and after 2 Ne2, 2…Qe1+ is a sneaky check mate.

FEN

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