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Originally posted by greenpawn34
There is this lovely line tucked away in there but don't money on how sound it is.
You would lose.

[pgn]
[FEN "r5k1/pb4p1/1pq2nQp/8/2Pp1P1R/3Br3/PB4PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1"]
1. Rg4 Nxg4 2. Qh7+ Kf8 3. Ba3+ Ke8 4. Qg8+ Kd7 5. Bf5+ Kc7 6. Qf7+ Kb8 7. Qf8+ Re8 8. Qxe8+ Qxe8 9. Bd6[/pgn]
Yeah, that's nasty. I could see myself losing with black like that. 😛

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A bit of fantasy, it's close, I often float away into the land of never-never.
It's probably how I spot things and gets ideas.

Back to the original. White to play.

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Oddly enough I think it's the combination of what the two previous posters said. Bxd4 then rg4.

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There are at least 3 mating lines after c5!
Not sure if its fallible or not???

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Originally posted by Matt2015z
Oddly enough I think it's the combination of what the two previous posters said. Bxd4 then rg4.
Right.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
There is this lovely line tucked away in there but don't money on how sound it is.
You would lose.

[pgn]
[FEN "r5k1/pb4p1/1pq2nQp/8/2Pp1P1R/3Br3/PB4PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1"]
1. Rg4 Nxg4 2. Qh7+ Kf8 3. Ba3+ Ke8 4. Qg8+ Kd7 5. Bf5+ Kc7 6. Qf7+ Kb8 7. Qf8+ Re8 8. Qxe8+ Qxe8 9. Bd6[/pgn]
It looks like 2...Kf7 instead of Kf8 stops that fantasy.

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