Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #337

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

White to play and mate Black

Pachman v Lechtynsky, Czechoslovakia 1968

Solution

1 f6 (though 1 Qh6+ also wins) and if 1…Rg8, 2 Qh7+!

There is then a forced mate by 3 Ng5+ and 4 Nf7 mate.

FEN

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