Test your chess: daily chess puzzle

White to play and win

Allanbeard v Lorien, ICC 3 min blitz, October 2014

Worth analysing black's various defences.

Solution

A pretty finish to a typical IQP game.

1 Qh6! and white wins. The main line is 1….Qc3 2 Qh7+ Kf8[] 3 Re6! reaching the following position, where there are still variations to explore.

Rather than give a full analysis in this blog, I have annotated the game here.

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