Daily Chess Improvement: Find the most accurate continuation!

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  Karthik M says:

  July 13, 2015 at 11:43 pm

  1 Rh7+ Kh7 [1 .. Kg6 2. Qf6 ]
  2 Qf7+ Kh6 (or Bg7)
  3 Rh3#

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  John Vian says:

  July 14, 2015 at 2:14 pm

  Here is another tough one. What is whites best move?

  4q1kr/p6p/1prQPppB/4n3/4P3/2P5/PP2B2P/R5K1 w – – 0 1

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    Yancey Ward says:

    July 15, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    If there is a solution, John, is something like 1.Qe5 followed by 2.Rf1? I don’t think black can win with 1. …Rd6 either because I think it is mate after 2.Qc7, but I am not sure.

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    Yancey Ward says:

    July 15, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    Thinking about it now, I don’t think black can win after white takes the knight with the queen. Maybe, if white can mobilize the king and the queenside majority, there might be a path to victory for white. Black is clearly tied up badly after 1.Qe5 and 2.Rf1. I actually saw this line the first time you posted the problem, but for some reason I didn’t really appreciate the following line:

    1. Qe5 fe5
    2. Rf1 Rc7 (planning to block the e-pawn with the rook rather than the queen at e7)
    3. Bb5!

    This is the move I really missed the importance of last week. I totally dismissed the idea of taking the knight after thinking of 2. ….Rc7, but now white is threatening to put the bishop on d7, preventing the rook from taking up residence on e7. Right now, I still don’t see white winning this, but I don’t think he is in danger of losing it.