Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #496

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

White to play and mate Black

Popov v Ajanski, Plovdiv 1980

Solution

1 Qf6! and it is all over.

FEN

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