Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #306

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

White to play and mate Black

Wachtel v Grimshaw, San Juan 1965

Solution

Quite an optically hard solution, and no wonder that in the game White missed it, and played 1 Qe2, winning prosaically.

But 1 Nf5+! Ne5 2 Ng7+ Kf7[] 3 Nh6 mate.

FEN

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