Chess puzzle of the week - BLACK TO PLAY | Terler vs Gorskovs, Isle of Wight 2026

Here's your Puzzle of the Week. It's black to play and win. So this was a game played in the Isle of Wight open in England in February 2026 and it features Bodan Taylor playing white and Andres Goskovs playing black. Now if you'd like to solve the puzzle interactively on a graphics board then do click through to chesspuzzle.net you'll find the link in the video description and you can also see the whole game there or you might like to pause the video and set up the position on a chess board and have a go or you might just want to solve it like that. Okay are we ready for the solution? So black to play I mean there's there are some tempting checks here but actually they don't lead to anything. After this there's nothing doing. I mean you could try something like rook f7 to deflect this rook away and then queen takes but actually there's a clever defense here for white. Queen check and after king takes rook queen g3 check and actually this is just a draw. I perpetual check there we go and so on. So queen f1 doesn't work rook f1 also doesn't work the king just goes to h2. Okay what about trying to blast through like this? Well yeah you don't play king takes but rook takes and in fact white is absolutely fine here. For example here and king here and so on and queen g1 for example. Okay so how does black win this position? It's a very clever move actually and Gorskov's found this in the game rook 8 f7. Okay what's the big idea? Well in this case rook takes check and mate. Okay that's an easy one. Okay what about queen takes? Well queen f1 check and the rook takes f7 and black has won the queen. Okay that's good. Okay then what about queen b8? Is it a draw? No because this time notice the g3 square is covered by black's queen. You can give a check on e5 but I mean there are lots of ways to win this one. I mean you could just bring the rook back and you can see well the king is very well defended by the major pieces. So in the game after rook f7 white played queen a4 and then simply king takes rook and that was game over. Okay there was a check here but basically the sensible checks have run out. I mean you can check here but then just the rook blocks and after this well this is how the went. Rook g7, rook check, rook f8. Well you can see black is just a rook up and went on to win the game a few moves later. There you go. I repeat if you want to click through to chesspuzzle.net you can see the whole game there but also you can find loads of puzzles to amuse you and well good luck.