Another puzzle for a straightforward Cordingley day #chess

White to play and win

Solution

The puzzle is from a 3 minute Playchess.com blitz game yesterday. I was pleased to see that 1 Bh6! might be strong, with the g7 pawn being tied to the defence of the Nf6, so that 1…Kh6 is forced, when 2 Rf6! shatters open the king's defence, and it is more or less intuitive that white will have a perpetual. After a quick glance for something else rather than 1 Bh6, I realised that after 2 Rf6! the queen is LPDO, and then I saw checking until the queen gets to g4 or h3 must give a discovered check possibility. And this is how the game panned out, and I am pleased to say that Houdini didn't wreck the concept.

So, I wonder if this Cordingley training is helping? Probably not, but maybe?

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