Tricky Tactic, White to mate in 4

Written by David Cordover on 11th Jul, 2009

tricky tactic

Can you work out what to do here? It is white’s turn to move and you can force checkmate in 4 moves.

Clue: Try to play forcing moves if you can, but remember check isn’t always the best move.

Solution:

l.Rh8+ Kf7 2.Be8+ Nxe8 3.Kg5 and 4.Rf8#. Notice that 2.Be8 is necessary to decoy the knight from f6 as 2.Kg5 would be answered by 2 … Nxe4+

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