Cordingley puzzle 198 #chess

White to play and win

Solution

Straightforward this: clearly the main motif is back rank motif, and one has to find a way of breaking black's support for the Re8. My first try was 1 Rd4, which doesn't work, I glanced at 1 f3 which similarly fails, and then looked at 1 Be7: which I saw worked, because capturing is mated after 2 Qe7 Re7 3 Rd8+ etc.

Nothing much more to say really: all over in 30 seconds or less today.

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