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1. Bxh6 gxh6
2. Qg6+ Kh8
3. Qxh6+ Kg8
4. Qxe6+ Kh8
5. Qxd5
and the pawns win the game.
2. …Rxf1
3. Rxf1
by Black doesn’t change anything
and if black doesn’t take the bishop white is a pawn up and has the better position. So he should win.
I think
1.Bxh6 is a good move
Wait! I think I have this one. (The bishop; it’s the bishop.) Too bad this puzzle’s only for women. Oh well.
Happy Canada Day.
{Not going to take this one too far. One can become bogged down in variation after variation if taking this beyond White’s 4th move.}
1. Bxh6 gxh6
(1. .. Qe8 {Probably Black’s best defence.}
2. Be3 {Time to settle for the pawn.})
2. Qg6+ Kh8
3. Qxh6+ Kg8
4. Qxe6+ Kg7
{And White has 3 pawns for the piece, and an winning attack.}
Lucymarie
1. Bxh6 gxh6 2. Qg6+ Kh8 3. Qxh6+ Kg8 4. Qxe6+ Kg7 5. Qe7+ Kh8 6. e6 Qd8 7. Qxd7 Qxd7 8. exd7 Kg7 9. Rxf8 Rxf8 10. Re1 Rd8 is an easy endgame for white.This is with black’s cooperation.
but 1.Bxh6 Qe8 nothing is clear but white is a pawn up and can withdraw B to g5.Variation with bold letters is only a fancyful variation, not the mainline.
Taking at h6 seems obvious to me as all the kingside pawns will fall if black accepts the bishop offer.
1. Bh6 gh6?
2. Qg6 Kh8
3. Qh6 Kg8
4. Qe6 Kh8
Here, I don’t think it matters much where the black king goes, but I will outline the variations at the end. Continuing:
5. Qh6 Kg8
6. e6 Qe8
That knight is pitiful. The only escape squares are b8 and f8 (after black clears the rook in the exchange at f1), but both are clearly lost: [6. …Nb8 7.Rf7! Rf7 8.ef7 Kf7 9.Qh7 Ke8 10.Re1 and black is going to lose his queen]; or [6. …Rf1 7.Rf1 Nf8 8.Rf7 with mate on the next move].
I am not going to go deeper here, but white should win with a simple ed7, the move I would play over the board here, but there is probably no reason to take the knight just yet.
Now, back at move 4, black had the option to get the king off the 8th rank, but it seems pointless to me:
4. …..Kg7
5. Qe7 Kh6 (Kg6 6.Rf5 Rf5 7.gf5+-)
6. Qh4 Kg7
7. Qg5 and the king is back on the 8th rank anyway.
So, at move 1, black must choose to allow the bishop to survive:
1. Bh6 Rf1
2. Rf1 Qe8 (to prevent Qg6)
3. Bg5 and white has won a pawn. At the moment, I don’t see a way to directly continue the attack, but a pawn is a pawn.