White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
Rule number one is to look for all checks and captures. Here, we’ve done enough back rank mate themes, so you should have had little alarms going off in your head: 1.Qxf7+ Rxf7 2.Rc8+ Bd8 3.Rxd8+ Rf8 4.Bd5+ Kh8 5.Rxf8#
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