rxh5 forcing the pawn to take, queen takes pawn, forcing king to either g7 g8 or h7, rg3 finishes it off with style as black sacrifices a queen to prevent mate for one final move and then it's ggs
[Puzzle Road] A beautiful finish! (P42)
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if after rook takes black doesn't take the rook and instead moves to g8 then queen goes h8 and the other rook gives a little peekaboo and it's lights out, if king goes to g7 queen gives a check at f6 and if black blocks, white can sac a rook to deflect king from the queen and be nicely winning, wiht mate ideas from the other rook
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42/ A beautiful finish! (Topic: ending the game)
Let's come to the puzzle! Coming from a bullet game, I'm pretty surprised that it had been possible for White to find the brilliant and winning move. But it's possible and White won by checkmate! How?
Feel free to check the explanations about the puzzle in my blog: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-a-beautiful-finish-p42