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1.Rxd7 plays itself.
Well, unless I am overlooking a better move, too, then it is Rd7, or the transposition sequence Nh6 first.
At first I thought this was a true “knockout”, but I am not so convinced any longer. I had thought there was no way to prevent a mating sequence, but I can’t quite get white’s edge when the smoke settles to more than a pawn and initiative. Still looking at other lines, but this one seems the key one:
1. Rd7 Qd7
2. Nh6 gh6
3. Bf6
Here, 3.Qf6 isn’t quite as good since black can reply with e5 cutting the line between the bishop and queen and threatening to exchange out the queens with Qc6+. If white takes the pawn on e5 with the queen, then black plays f6 guarding against the immediate mate. This really requires a deeper analysis since I haven’t even addressed the line where white gets the rook involved by blocking the check with Re4 forcing black to exchange at f6, but I can’t quite see a decisive attack with the bishop on f6 and the rook on e4 since black can take g4 away from the rook with h5 etc. So, continuing from 3.Bf6 above:
3. …………Rc5
Am torn here between Qc6 and Rc5 for black. Can’t even say they are different in the end- just too complicated for the amount of time I have actually spent with this:
4. Qg4
Maybe Re4 is better here?????
4. …………Rg5
5. Bg5 f5!
6. Qh5 hg5
7. Qg5
And white has regained the exchange and won a pawn with the inititiative and a better pawn structure. Yeah, I guess this is likely decisive, though black might want to play on. I just think we are missing a better line somewhere.
Thank you,Yancey for the analysis. I had not visualized much. Interesting is 1.Rxd7 Qxd7 2.Nf6+ Kh8 (avoiding 2…. gxf6)3.Qxf6! However black can wriggle out of mating net by again 3…. Qc6+ followed by 4… e5 at the cost of material.
Rxd7. And it is winning all the way . I respect your analysis but what a lost of time and a lost of words . You’re bored or what ….??. be serious many moves are made by intuition . Be concise and read the art of being short or write novels
I politely sorry
And what, precisely, makes intuition a good thing in a chess player? How does one develop good intuition?
Thete is no tuition for intuition.
“ANALYSIS NOTHING ELSE“ Pull the plug on useless commentary . Only chess please !!!!