Cordingley puzzle 162 #chess

White to play and win

Solution

The solution is not too hard, 1 Bh7+ is the obvious first move, and all that is necessary to realise is that after the bishop is captured, white checks on h5, swaps on e5, then 4 Qf7+ is a double attack, hitting the LPDO Bb7: game over.

I didn't spend much time on the game defence: in practice, one could end the analysis with 3 Be5, knowing that if 4 Bf6 didn't work, the B could retreat instead: and then only analyse Bf6 is black does indeed play 3…f6.

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