Daily chess puzzle

November 13, 2017

A break from the daily puzzle from Matni Udar. Today’s is a difficult puzzle I found in a 1991 issue of Kingpin.

White to play and win

Lputyan v Maculski, Krasnoyarsk 1981

Solution

Examine all biffs: 1 Qh7+ Kf7[] 2 Rg3! Rg8[]

3 Rd8!! and the Rg8 is overloaded.

FEN

2b2rk1/6p1/1p2pp2/7Q/1q2P3/bP5R/P4PP1/3R3K w – – 0 1

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