It looks like a draw but white can win this!

Both players have a rook and a queen left and exposed kings. For sure it looks like a draw but white has other plans...
This study was composed by Alexey Troitsky in 1898.
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[@petervanvelzen1950]

I pondered about the rook sacrifice but didn't fancy it because I overlooked the diagonal check after Ke5

[@giovannicorno1247]

I suspected that the first move was the rook sac, but didn't go through the analysis, just watched the solution 😅

[@karpolla]

lol pretty much the same. I figured it had to do with pinning the black queen and that was correct.

[@igorxyz8682]

really nice and for me difficult to see

[@RamKumar-gy9nb]

Excellent puzzle, brilliant tactic. Thank you very much and as always you have been brilliant in bringing the best puzzles. God bless you.

[@MrGyges]

Ah, I get it, be unkind to your rook. Nice problem.

[@DonJC49]

At least I figured out that a King/Queen skewer had to be the goal …

[@tykemorris]

"Because it is a puzzle it starts with a sacrifice." I should have remembered that typical puzzle tactic but I did not solve this puzzle.

[@user-zm1lx9uq9s]

Couldnt find the draw, very interesting problem.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

Got it all !

[@msjoanofthearc]

Nice

[@BillHimmel]

Couldn't find it :-(, once I saw the solution I felt pretty dumb for not seeing the motives!

[@nikolajradosavljevic4773]

Solved

[@user-zm1lx9uq9s]

First!!