White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
A “try” is 1.Rg7 Bxa4 2.Qc8+ Kd6 3.Rf6#, but it’s not a mate in two. However, moving the other rook to the seventh is much better: 1.Rf7 Kc7 [1...Bxa4 2.Rc3#; 1...Rh8 2.Rg6#; 1...d4 2.Qxd7#; 1...Kd6 2.Rg6#; 1...Rxh2 2.Qxd7#; 1...Re6 2.Qxd7#; 1...Rd6 2.Qc8#]2.Rc3# Composition by J.M.Rice, 1961.
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