Cordingley puzzle 14

White to play and win

Solution

Alas, I failed with this one. I didn’t even consider the best line. I committed at least two mistakes:

#6 not bringing all the pieces to the party.

#7 not looking at the geometry, the lines and diagonals.

Or, to apply one of Jacob Aagaard’s three questions (which he suggests we use for positional considerations) ‘which is the worst placed piece‘: the answer being the Bf1; and its better home is c4.

I played 1 g5 which wins (in fact, several moves win, Houdini tells me there are four or five +3 or higher moves, but 1 dc! is clearly best

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I may well write further on this game, since something has caught my eye earlier in the game as worth my study.

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