White to move. How should White proceed?
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White to move. How should White proceed?
White to offer a draw. There’s no win.
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This is a simple two-mover, and was the first move I looked at. Note that the knight is attacked, and if the knight could move to f6, it would be a nasty fork. But unfortunately, the rook is in the way. So the first thing here is to look at how to move the rook out of f6 (but with tempo, so that black doesn’t simply capture the knight). The obvious try is…
1 RxN! After either the queen or pawn recaptures, 2 Nf6+ wins back the rook with interest.
The cute thing about this problem is that Black has two different ways to recapture the Rook on g6. He can choose to protect either of the Black Rooks, but that will leave the other one unprotected. For example, 1. Rxg6 Qxg6 (protecting the Rook at e4) 2. Nf6+ K moves 3. Nxd7. Or 1. Rxg6 fxg6 (protecting the Rook at d7) 2. Nf6+ K moves 3. Nxe4.
1. Rxg6 Qxg6 (or fxg6)
2. Nf6+
White wins a piece