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

Olsson v Puig, Varna Olympiad Preliminaries, 25/9/1962

Solution

1 R1e6! though the engine only gives the slightest advantage to White after the move played in the game,  1…Rc8.

Then 2 h3 (my engine drops to 0.0 here)  Rc5 2 Bb3  Kh8??

3 Rg6! and 1-0/

FEN

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