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1.Be3 Rd7 2.Qe8+ Kg7 3.Qxe6
1.Be3 Bxe3 2.Rd8+ Kg7 3.Qxh7#
1.Be3 Bb6 2.Bxh7+ Kh8 3.Bf5+ Kg7/Kg8 4.Qg4+ and 5.Bxe6
1.Be3 Bb6 2.Bxh7+ Rxh7 3.Qe8+ Kg7 4.Qxe6 threatening Rd7+ and Bxb6
1.Be3 Bb6 2.Bxh7+ Kh8 3.Bf5+ Kg7/g8 4.Qg4+ Kf7 5.Qg6+ Kf8 6.Bh6# sorry.
No that’s not mate of course, 6.Bh6+ Rg7 7.Bxg7+ Qxg7 8.Qxg7+ Kxg7 9.Bxe6
1.Be3 Bb6 2.Bxh7+ Kh8 3.Bf5+ Kg7/g8 4.Qg4+ Kf7 5.Qg6+ Kf8 6.Bh6+ Rg7 7.Qxf6+ Ke8 8.Qxe6+ Qe7 9.Bg6+ Rxg6 10.Qxg6+ Qf7 11.Qc6+ and will mate.
James,
Why not just play 2.Rd8 after 1.Be3 Bb6?
I don’t like 2.Bh7 a whole lot, though it probably wins too:
1. Be3 Bb6
2. Bh7 Rh7!
3. Qe8 Kg7
4. Qe6 Be3
5. Rd7 Qd7
6. Qd7 Kh6!
7. Qa4 Bd2
And white should win, but it would be a long slog.
I didn’t see that the b6 bishop was pinned against the Q, I’m a bit rusty and I’d been wasting a lot of effort trying to get 1.Bd6 to work.
Wow, this is the oldest file in my electronic archive of Susan Polgar Chess Puzzles- from January 8th 2008.
As James above notes, the bishop is pinned to the d8 square primarily. Black’s rook can’t protect from d7 either since it guards the e8 square:
1. Be3 Rd7
2. Qe8 Kg7
3. Qe6 and now the bishop at d4 is pinned to the rook and white has Qg4+ coming if the rook retreats to d8.
Black probably minimizes the damage by playing 1. ….Qa8 to guard the d8 square, but this just concedes the piece. White would have to play carefully, but the exposed black king offers probably a plethora of winning attacks.
That should have read January 12th, 2008.