White to Play
Published in Chess Puzzles
Here’s our last Alekhine finish. It’s against Yates at Semmering in 1926. Yates was no pushover and beat Alekhine twice.
Solution: 1.Rxh7+ Kxh7 [1...Rxh7 2.Qxf6+ Rg7 3.Qxg7#] 2.Rxf6+ Kg8 3.Rg6+ Kf8 4.Qh8+ Ke7 5.Re6+ Kd8 6.Rxe8#
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