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The best line I have found thus far is 1 Rh7 Qh7 2 Qf3 Kh6 3 Qd5 when white will pick up the pawn on d3 and should have a winning endgame, though technique is still required. Anybody else found a better line?
-Justin Daniel
1. Qe6+ , forking black’s queen and rook, thus winning the rook. 1…Qxe6 loses immediately to 2.Rxh7#.
1… Qd8 (moving the queen to protect the rook) also loses to 2.Rxh7#.
1… Rd8 (moving the rook to protect the queen) loses to 2.Qg4 Kh5 3.Qg5#.
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1.Qe6! Q:e6
2.Rh7#
“The threat is 2.Qg4+ Kg5 3.Qg5#.”
Rook d5 defends g5.
1. Qe6, d2!? (may be another cute try) 2. Qxd5+! (2. Qxg8, Rd3+ 3. Kg2, d1Q may give black some little chances to escape, for me it’s too early in the morning to calculate this out without board.)
Jochen: thanks for pointing out that the d5 rook protects g5, sorry my mistake (thus i’d deleted my post)
On your suggestion: after 3…d1(Q), 4.Qxh7+, from there the white queen and rook achieve checkmate by leapfrogging motion along the f, g & h files. (Don’t have the specific moves for now but am pretty sure that’s the end result).
In the objection Jochen raised (at 7:00 a.m. CDT), the Rook has already moved to d8 on move 1, hence it can’t protect g5.