Test your chess: daily chess puzzle # 47

White to play and win

FN Barnett v C Behrens 2003

Solution

Simple, enough, with the motif being standard: 1 e6+! breaks through, giving white's king access to black's pawns via the black squares. 1…Be6[] 2 Ke5 Bf7[] 3 Kf6 and it is game over. Both black's pawns drop off.

All that is needed (especially after yesterday's failure, where I saw a winning line, but shamefully didn't look for a better one) is to check that black has no …g5 or other tricks (he doesn't) and then it is problem solved.

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