White to move! How should white proceed? No one move solution please!
Daily Chess Improvement: Find the right continuation!
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White to move! How should white proceed? No one move solution please!
Creating luft seems best – 1…h5 (1…h6 2. R:f7 R:f7 3. Qe8+ Kh7 4. Bd3+ g6 5. Q:f7+ and mate soon) and now white can shift gears with 2. Qc7 again with a mating attack, this time along the 7th rank, and starting with 3. B:f7+ – the threats against g7 will be overwhelming.
Black can also opt to tamely give up the B, but it’s not so tame. 1…Qb4 preparing to push the pawn, 2. R:f7 runs into the same mate. Or 1…Kh8 2. B:f7 Qb4 again preparing to push the pawn but simply 3. B:b3 and the mate threat on g7 prevents capturing the B and, in fact, after 3… Qb8 pinning the white Q, 4. Rc7 forces black to give up the Q for the R to stop mate.
After 4. Rc7 black has Rf6, not giving up the queen. White can play Be6 threatening Rc8+ but the black queen goes back to c4, defending f8. White still wins, of course, being a full piece up and with continuing threats against black’s king. Marching the f pawn up to aid in the attack is probably the best strategy.