Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #315

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

White to play and mate Black

Suta v Kotoman, correspondence 1966

Solution

1 Rg6! has to be the move (though Komodo says 1 Qh6 is also +-) 1…Kg6[] 2 Re7! Qe7

3 Qf5+ Kg7 4 Qh7mate is an optically hard, but pleasing, mate.]

Black has other defences, but White is winning easily against all.

FEN

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