White to Play
Published in Chess Puzzles
This is composed study week with the theme being a small number of pieces and pawns on the board. Today’s composition by L. Prokes is a very practical set up. White wins, but how? It looks like 1.Kxe7 only draws because of 1…Bxe5 and 1.d6 exd6 isn’t promising. What to do….
Solution:
When direct pathways don’t work you have to often choose by process of elimination. There’s really only one first move, but there’s still work to do:
1.Kf5 Bg1 2.d6 Bc5 [2...exd6 3.e6] 3.d7 Bb6 4.Ke6 Bd8 5.Kf7 Kg5 6.e6 Kf5 7.Ke8 Ba5 8.Kxe7 Ke5 9.Kf7 Kd6 10.e7
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