Editor's Note: We apologize for any technical difficulties you may experience with getting the puzzle images to display properly. This is a site-wide problem and we are working hard to fix it. Stay tuned!We continue our theme of attacking the g-pawn in the castled position with a dandy of a finish from the game Field-Tenner, New York, 1933. Will seeing how the last two puzzles turned out help you solve this one? Let me know!

Solution:

Fortunately for us, White chose the quick way to defeat. There was a longer way to lose and some really entertaining other ways to go quickly: Tenner went with:

1...Nf4 2.Nxe4 [Entertaining alternatives, worth playing out, were 2.gxf3 Qh3 3.Bxf4 exf3; 2.Nd3 Ne2+ 3.Kh1 Bxg2+ 4.Kxg2 Qf3+ 5.Kh3 exd3 6.cxd3 Nf4+ 7.Kh4 g5# (7...Qh5#) ; 2.h3 Nxh3+ 3.Kh2 Nf4 4.Rh1 Bxg2 5.Kg1 Bxh1 6.Kxh1 Qf3+ 7.Kh2 Qg2#; however, the most resistance could have been offered by 2.Qc3 Nxg2 3.Nxe4 Nh4 (3...Qh3 4.Qxf3) 4.Nbd2 Qh3 5.Qxf3 Nxf3+ 6.Nxf3 f5 7.Ned2 f4 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bxg5 hxg5 10.Nxg5 Qh5 11.Kh1 Kh8 12.Rg1 Rg8 13.Ngf3 Rxg1+ 14.Rxg1 Rg8 15.Rxg8+ Kxg8 where the queen should prevail over the two knights.] 2...Qh3 and mate on g2 is coming next as 3.gxh3 Nxh3 is mate.

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