Cordingley puzzle 147 #chess

White to play and win

Solution

I found this immediately, so I guess I would call it simple: the only hard part was finding the bishop manoeuvre. 1 Re5+ Qe5 2 Bf7+ exploits the pinned rook against the LPDO Qe5; so 2…Ke7 and 'where to put the bishop'? It didn't take long to see Bh5+ and Bg4+ which wins the house.

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