Saturday morning puzzle

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  Anonymous says:

  September 20, 2008 at 1:30 pm

  Very nice puzzle!

  1.g6 is obvious but after 1…Kf6 2.g7 Bh7! (Kxh7?? Nf3 g8=Q Ng5+ Qxg5 Kxg5 h6 c4 Kg7 c3 h7 c2 and both white and black will get a queen with a difficult somewhat drawish ending) I couldn’t find anything for a while until I found 3.e4!! and black is just lost; 3…Nf3 4.e5+ Kf5 5.Kxh7 Ng5+ 6.Kg8 1-0

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  Anonymous says:

  September 20, 2008 at 1:40 pm

  Or 3…e5 4.Kxh7 Nf3 5.g8=Q Ng5+ 6.Qxg5 Kxg5 7.h6 c4 8.Kg7 c3 9.h7 c2 10.h8=Q c1=Q 11.Qh6+. This skewer doesn’t work in your “difficult somewhat drawish ending” because of the pawn on e3.

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  Anonymous says:

  September 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  So the ‘key’ in this puzzle is White to get rid of his own annoying e3-Pawn !

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  Ogion The Silent says:

  September 21, 2008 at 8:03 am

  Thanks anon for all this.
  Much appreciated.
  Myself I have not found the solution to this puzzle. it is quite a hard one.
  Best wishes
  A. Weiler