Cordingley puzzle 123 #chess

White to play and win

Solution

As I sometimes, do, I loaded the page (121-125) of puzzles from Megabase into my purpose built file for this Cordingley project: partly because I have to key in every fifth puzzle, which is given in FEN in the book. An 'advantage' of being fifty is that if take my spectacles off, there is no chance that I can by chance see any of the solutions: one has to count one's blessings.

Anyway, this particular game wasn't in Megabase, and nor did a google search find it, so I had to enter the pieces manually into a fresh Chessbase board. In doing so, I saw the solution- it just appeared to be a 'trick' position, and I saw that 1 Qe3 threatened a cheapo- perhaps a sign of too much blitz. So, 1… Re7 (other moves either lose the same way or prosaically) 2 Qh6+! Kh6 ( 2…gh 3 Rh8 mate) 3 Rh8+ and 4 Rh5 mate).

Simple enough.

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