Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #442
Another puzzle from Dragoslav Andric’s 1981 book “Matni Udar”.
White to play and mate Black.
Karpov v Csom, Bad Lauterberg 1977
Solution
1 Nf5! is an automatic decision, referring once again to Jacob Aagaard’s excellent new book, ‘Thinking inside the box’.
If e.g. 1…Nd7 then 2 Qh2+! and 3 Qg3+
followed by 4 Qg7 mate. And on other moves then Rh7+ and Qg7 mate follow.
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