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The exchange of queens can be forced allowing the h pawn to queen.
After the exchange, the bishop is hanging so opening the diagonal to the queening square with f5 doesn’t work.
The king is just a tempo/square short of catching the h pawn.
Qe6+ Qxe6 fxe6 Kxe6 h7 f5 Kxc3 Kf7 h8=Q +-
Qe6+ Qxe6 fxe6 f5 Kxc3 Kxe6 h7 Kf7 h8=Q +-
Black not taking on e6 makes things even easier:
Qe6+ Kc5 Qxe1 Bxe1 h7 +-
1. ♕e6+ ♛xe6
2. fxe6 ♝a1 or ♝d4 or ♝e5
3. ♗f5, followed by
4. h7 and
5. h8=♕
Exchange queens before getting a new queen. Bishop alone can’t stop h-pawn.
1. Qd8+ Ke5
2. Qe7+ Kf4
3. Qxe1 Bxe1
4. h7
First in this position, I would want to see if I could exchange the queens at e6- this is especially so since black will have to spend a move on the bishop whose only protection is the queen herself:
1. Qe6 Qe6
If black moves the king, white exchanges at e1 and pushes h7 to win:
2. fe6 Be5
Or if Kxe6, white pushes h7 to win since the bishop at c3 is still hanging. However, white can moot the saving of the bishop by cutting the line to h8:
3. Bf5! and now the h-pawn cannot be stopped
exchange queens and then promote pawn.
1. Qe6+ Qxe6
2. fxe6 Be5 (Bd4) (if Bd2, 3. h7)
3. Bf5 …
4. h7 …
5. h8=Q
Don’t want to consider anything but 1. Qe6+
1. h7?? would be a huge mistake because of 1. .. Qa1, and White is lucky: he can manage a perpetual check to escape the threatened checkmate with 2. .. Qb2#
1. .. Qxe6 2. fxe6 Kxe6
(2. .. Bd4 3. Bf5)
(2. ..Bd2 3. h7)
3. h7 (3. Kxc3 this wins too Kf7 4. Kd4) 3. .. f5 bishop is covering the queening square!? 4. Kxc3 now it’s not!
Dear pht:
1. Qd8+?? Kc5 and not 1. .. Ke5??
After 1. Qd8+, White has no better than a perpetual.