Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #352

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

Black to play and mate White

Durth v Koch, Germany 1971

Solution

Quite nice today: just at my limit of vision, with Knight’s harder to imagine a few moves deep.

1…Qg2+! 2 Ng2 Nf3_ 3 Kf1 (3 Kh1 ? Rh2 mate) 3..Nh2+ 4 K-either Nf3+ 5 Kf1[] Rh3 mate.

FEN

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