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1.Bh6 Rg8 (1…gxh 2.Qh6 and Qxh7 or Qg7#)
2.Bxg7+ Rxg7
3.Re8+
Bh6 Rg8
Bxg7+ Rxg7
Re8+ Qxe8+
Qxe8+ Rg8
Qe7
this is clearly winning. if the player decides to take the bishop its a mate.
Bh6 gxh6
Qxh6 Rf7
Rxf7 Qg8
Qf6+ Qg7
Qxg7++
At first glance, this looks really bad for white.
Being up with 2 pawns helps nothing as long as black has the mate-in-two threat Bh1 and Qg2.
White pieces look badly displaced, unable to defend or to attack.
So, we simply have to try an attack involving sacrifice.
The g7 field must be attacked, at any cost, and it must involve a direct mating threat:
1. Bh6!
A move I probably wouldn’t think of in a better looking situation, but here I have no alternative.
If this doesn’t help, nothing helps.
It threats Bxg7#.
1. … Rg8 (Enforced. gxh6?? Qxh6! mating on either g7 or h7, black can’t defend both)
2. Qf7! Qf8 (only move)
3. Qxf8 Rxf8
4. Bxg7 Kg8
1 – 0
1. Bh6! Rg8
(1……. gxh6
2. Qxh6 mates )
2. Qf7! Qf8
3. Qxf8 Rxf8
4. Bxg7+ Kg8
5. Bxf8 Kxf8
6. Ra7 +-
1-0
Bh6
Mark
I notice that here are two different ideas about how to continue after
1. Bh6 Rg8
Both I and Haridaran liked the enforced simplification after:
2. Qf7! Qf8
3. Qxf8 Rxf8
4. Bxg7+ Kg8
5. Bxf8 Kxf8
6. R somewhere B somewhere
7. f4 etc.
This is now 2R+6p vs. R+B+4p and a child easily wins with the 2 extra pawns here.
The other idea is:
2. Bxg7+ Rxg7
3. Re8+ Qxe8+
4. Qxe8+ Rg8
5. Q somewhere B somewhere
This is now Q+R+6p vs. 2R+B+4p.
The material lead is practically the same I think, but my move 2. Qf7 seems to give the fastest simplification and make the rest of the game easier and shorter.