White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
Just what we were talking about: check, capture, the check and mate… 1.Rc5+ bxc5 2.Bc7# Now, you may very well have looked at 1.Rc5+ and said to yourself, “Oh, that loses a rook.” and not looked further and went on to look at the pawn check on the first move, which loses to a capture. You need to keep looking to see if there are follow-up checks, like the bishop check. Keeping checking for checks!
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