Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #391

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

Black to play and mate White

Solution

Fairly standard today: 1…Qc6 forces 2 Bf3 (the f pawn is pinned) when 2…Qf3! wins.

3 gf Rdg8+ 4 Bg3 Rg3+ 5 hg Bf3 and mate.

When entering the diagrams into Chessbase in order to print this blog, Komodo agrees that 1…Qc6 is winning, -4, but says that 1…Rdg8 is even “stronger”.

FEN

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