Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #336

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

White to play and mate Black

Paar v Whitecroft, Netherlands, 1968

Solution

Not too hard: the LPDO Qa4 and the jump-biff Qd7-a4 in the puzzle position provide the rationale for 1 Rh5; so that 1…Qd7 is met by 2 Ng5+ and 3 Rh6 mate.

FEN

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