Medium Chess Puzzle # 0073

Solve this medium chess puzzle and improve your chess games through improvement of your chess strategies and chess tactics.

Puzzle No : 0073

Difficulty level : medium

Description : Gain opponent’s queen in two moves

Next Move : White

Player level : Intermediate

Medium chess puzzle 0073

At this puzzle, next move is by White. The objective of the puzzle is to gain opponent’s queen in two moves.

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This is the initial board position of medium chess puzzle 0073.

Move by black

Move by white

Move by black

Move by white

Ganesh

Based on the objective of the puzzle, you have to make the right moves. Following are the right moves

Qc2 - Since the opponent’s queen and rook are in a battery formation, opponent’s queen forks your unguarded queen and rook. This is a mistake
Rd8+ - If you deflect the opponent’s rook from c file, you can capture the opponent’s queen without any loss. You rook sacrifices itself to deflect the opponent’s rook
Rxd8 - Opponent’s rook is forced to capture your rook since this is the only move available for them to avoid the back-rank mate. This is a zugzwang move.
Qxc2 - Since the opponent’s rook moved from c file, your queen captures the opponent’s queen without any loss. This is how you can gain the queen in two moves.
For right move - You have forced the opponent’s rook to move from c file to gain the queen. It was a wise decision
For wrong move - You could have gained the opponent’s queen by giving a check from your rook. Try again