Happy Birthday, Chess Today - Plus a Puzzle
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 11:35AM
Dennis Monokroussos in Tactics

The email daily Chess Today turned 10 on Monday and still seems to be going strong, which is an achievement for founder Alexander Baburin and an ongoing boon for the chess community. Each day it presents one or more puzzles, a news roundup, the occasional book review and (most of the time) a deeply annotated game.

A puzzle given in the 10th anniversary issue featured this position, from an old (1962) game Roos-Ferry. (Generally the puzzles are of newer vintage, but apparently nothing jumped out from the day's action.)

It's White to move and win, and as White's advantage is overwhelming there really isn't a shortage of right answers. Still, see if you can find the fastest way (or ways), and I'll return to this in a second post later today.

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