Daily Chess Puzzle

Today’s problem is from the 1972 book “Chess Combination as a Fine Art”, a book based on articles published in the 1950s-1960s by Kurt Richter.

Since the start of 2018, I have decided to adopt the style of only saying which side is to play: and not giving an idea if the move wins or otherwise, unless on occasion I think signposting would be helpful. Instead, the problems are posed with the instruction to decide what you would play, as in a game.

White to play

Capablanca v Lasker, Berlin 1914, 5 sec ligntning

Solution

1 Ra8+! and wins the b6 pawn, and then the game.

FEN

1R6/k1nK4/1p6/1P6/8/8/8/8 w – – 0 1