Cordingley puzzle 199 #chess

White to play and win

Solution

I found this one fairly easy: the move my hand wants to play is 1 Bh6, and after 1…gh 2 Nh5- improving the knight, rather than 2 Qh6, when black can defend with 2…Qg7. But after 2 Nh5 the h6 pawn can't easily be protected, and white can easily bring more pieces to the party, such as Qf4, and in some lines, if black's queen moves to e7 to protect f6, there is a winning pin on the e-file, exploited by Bf5 etc.

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