Cordingley puzzle 211 #chess

October 29, 2013

Black to play and win

Solution

I flirted around with this, seeing 1…Nhg4 straight away, but not being convinced: and then looking at 1…Ra7 to try to control e3, but that fails, and 1…Bg4 does nothing…so I returned to 1…Nhg4! and looked harder. As soon as I saw the concept of Qh7 then it all came together, though I didn't see the pretty game continuation.