On Monday I asked you how White should continue in this position (Sasikiran – Eren Prague 2026).

There was a lot of online discussion on this one, but the correct solution was eventually discovered. Well done everyone (especially David H and Adrian W), and thanks for participating.

The game continued 1. d7! Qd6 2. Qe6! Rb1+ 3. Kh2 Rd1 4. Nxf6+ Kh8 5. d8Q+ Qxd8 6. Qxf7 and Black resigned.

You get full credit for finding the first two moves here.

I took this position from the latest issue of CHESS, which publishes 24 puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty every month. They published the position from two moves earlier, but the second move in their solution wasn’t significantly better than several alternatives, so I started from here.

If you’re serious about chess improvement you should be spending time every week, preferably every day, solving puzzles of this nature, either online or from books and magazines.