Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #375

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

White to play and mate Black

Pytel v Haussner, USSR 1973

Solution

The LPDO Qc6 and the jump-biff Qf3-c6 provide the basis for the solution: 1 Rc5!!, and we see that Qa8+ is threatened, so Black is also in a net.

FEN

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