Chess puzzle in the new Hitman game

Hello all!

Well, I don't play chess, but I do play video games, and there's a chess "puzzle" in the latest Hitman game that I was hoping to get some insight on from people who know chess better than I do.

In the second mission, you're sent down to a Cuban military base in '79 to assassinate an American chessmaster who's about to defect to the Soviets. One way you can do this is by solving a chess problem he's been puzzling over for days. He then drinks a celebratory shot of vodka (which you've helpfully poisoned beforehand). Problem solved!

Anyhow, this is the "puzzle":

As you can see, it's not much of a puzzle at all. You're only given two choices, and although I haven't played since my high school Chess Club days, I would think that moving the rook is suicide (please correct me if I'm wrong). The "correct" answer is to move the queen.

So, it's just a dumb mini-quest in a goofy video game. Yes, that's fair enough. But we Hitman players are an obsessive lot and argue about every little detail. In fact, we've been chatting about this in a thread over at HitmanForum. Developers often hide Easter Eggs in their games, sometimes in the most obscure places. So, I was wondering if there was anything more to it? Something about this particular board that perhaps only experienced chess players would recognize?

For instance, is this even a viable chess problem, something a gifted international player would puzzle over? Is it maybe a well-known position from a chess match in the '70s? Is it reminescent of a particular style or anything? Basically, is there anything hidden here?

There's probably nothing there, but as I said, we're obsessive. This is the only chess puzzle in the game (as far as I know) so it would be a perfect place to add some obscure reference, especially involving the number 47. Any comments, analysis, guesses, and especially wild speculation would be welcome.

Thanks very much in advance,

-Keller

This is a famous game from Fischer-Spassky world championship match. Fischer continued Qg3 and went on to win the game. Position is reached after move 28.

Not sure why they chose that moment in particular. Clearly Rf8?? loses. 

That puzzle is not much of a puzzle though, Rf8+ is just blundering the rook.

Holy crap! @Patzer8000 you are amazing! That's exactly it!

I think they probably make it simple so as not to turn off non-chessplayers. Seems a bit overcautious to me. What would have been cool was a puzzle of different strength for each difficulty level (were that a feature of the newest hitman).

It was more of an easter egg than it was a puzzle, plus with only two solutions you can just save and reload if you got it wrong anyway