Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #378

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

White to play and mate Black

Hartston v Whiteley, 1974

Solution

A puzzle I’d seen before, maybe in my childhood, when Bill Hartston was at the forefront of British chess.

1 Qg8+ Rf8[] 2 Qg6+!

Qg6[] 3 Ree7+ Kd8[] 4 Rbd7 mate.

Hopefully Andrew Whiteley smiled at the prettiness of the finale.

FEN

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