Daily chess puzzle

Today’s problem was seen in a recent newspaper or magazine (alas, I can’t remember where: I have misplaced the cutting). Since I enjoyed solving it I am sharing it on my blog.

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

Unknown players ( I couldn’t find the position in Megabase or TWIC)

Solution

1 Rd6! is the nice, little, venomous move. The reason I set the position up on my board was that I couldn’t solve the clipping when I first looked at, trying everything but 1 Rd6. But examine all biffs and the problem was solved.