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Nd1 maybe, and now white cannot defend the c1 promotion.
In a blitz game I would immediately play Nd1 and I cannot find anything wrong with it here either. Seems to easy though?!
to Anon 10:11 and 10:56 I don’t know if it’s wrong, but one should also consider
2. Nf5+
where the threat of queening with ‘a’ or ‘f’ pawn becomes considerable. So the question for me now is: how to manage the situation after both queenings?
1.Ba8 seems interesting to me. The immediate 1.Nd1 might fall foul to 1…Nf5+ 2.Kg6 Ne7+ and 3…Nxd5, after which white’s a-pawn could promote. Getting the bishop out of harm’s way might thus be the best move here – after all the two black pawns on the second rank cannot be stopped both.
Beelze
After 1. Nd1, Nf5+ 2. Kg5, f7 3. c1=Q, f8=Q, black then has a mating attack with queen, bishop, and knight and white never gets to use his new queen. (same poster as 10:11:00)
to Anon 12:40, after Nf5+, Kg6 loses because of Ne7 as you pointed out, but Kg5 wins.