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I need help. Hard for me to corral the king without a board to work with. So far I have this:
1.Rg7+ Kg7
2.Qh6+ Kf7
3.Qh7+ Kf6
4.g5+ Ke5
5.Qg7+ Kf4
Am I missing something shorter and easier?
Yancey Ward
One idea:
1 Rh6 Bxh6
2 Qxh6
And now 3 Qxg6, 4 Rh8
1. Rxg7+ Kxg7
2. Qh6+ Kf6
3. Qf4+ Kg7
I can only see a perpetual here: Qh6+
This is not working:
4. Ne6+ Bxe6
5. dxe6 Nh3+
(5…Qxc4, 6. Qf7#;
5…Rf8 looks too passive
6. Kxb2, Nxc4+
7. Kh1, Ne5
Black seems to hold the attack, and has attacks on White’s king.
Bxb5
1. Bb5 eliminates the very threatening black knight, but if I were black I would respond 1….Bd4
and the bishop at d4 is unassailable due to the mate threat at c2.
Yancey
I’m not seeing the mate threat on c2.
1. Bxb5 Bxd4
2. Bxd7 Qxc2+
3. Qxc2 Rxc2
4. Be6+ Kf8
5. Rf7+ Kg8
6. Rxe7+ Kf8
7. Rf7+ Kg8
8. Kxc2
and white is way up
1. Rxg7+ Kxg7
(…Kf8 2.Qf4+ Bf5 3. Ne6#)
2. Qh6+ Kf7
(Kg8 3.Qxg6+ Kf8 4.Rh8#)
(Kf6 3.g5+ Ke5, etc.)
3. Qh7+ Kf6 (…Kf8 4. Qh8+ Kf7 5. Rh7#)
4. g5+ Ke5(Kxg5 5.Qh4#)
5. Qg7+ Kf4
6. Qh6+ Kg3
7. Qh2#
I’m not sure this is all correct without checking on a board. If something is wrong, I suppose I could always bail out at some point and trade Knights and/or take Black’s advanced pawn. But Black does seem to have an attack coming down the c-file, so it seemed important to keep the initiative with the checks, and it all seems pretty forcing no matter which responses Black makes.