White to move. How should White proceed?
7K/2p5/4p3/2p2kPP/8/4P3/2b5/4n3 w – – 0 1
This puzzle was presented by Andreas.
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Very nice puzzle!
1.g6 is obvious but after 1…Kf6 2.g7 Bh7! (Kxh7?? Nf3 g8=Q Ng5+ Qxg5 Kxg5 h6 c4 Kg7 c3 h7 c2 and both white and black will get a queen with a difficult somewhat drawish ending) I couldn’t find anything for a while until I found 3.e4!! and black is just lost; 3…Nf3 4.e5+ Kf5 5.Kxh7 Ng5+ 6.Kg8 1-0
Or 3…e5 4.Kxh7 Nf3 5.g8=Q Ng5+ 6.Qxg5 Kxg5 7.h6 c4 8.Kg7 c3 9.h7 c2 10.h8=Q c1=Q 11.Qh6+. This skewer doesn’t work in your “difficult somewhat drawish ending” because of the pawn on e3.
So the ‘key’ in this puzzle is White to get rid of his own annoying e3-Pawn !
Thanks anon for all this.
Much appreciated.
Myself I have not found the solution to this puzzle. it is quite a hard one.
Best wishes
A. Weiler