Cordingley puzzle 246 #chess

White to play and win

Solution

A fairly easy day today. The sac 1 Rf6! begs to be played, and all that is needed is to assess the position after 1…gf[] 2 Bh3+ Rd7, and to also see if 1 Bh3 is even better (it is worse, giving black the alternative of 1…Nd7).

Whilst I can't see 'to the end' after 2…Rd7, it is not to hard to assess that after 3 Bd7+ 4 Qg4+ and probably 5 Nd5 white's position is very strong.

Addendum

It is interesting to see how soon black's position became lost. It is in the diagram below, where 10…Qb6 is the losing blunder. I wouldn't immediately after assessed it as such, but having looked at it a bit further, the Q is off-side on b6 and black's white squares are too loose. Interesting.

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