Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Chess puzzle 3, Aug 07

August 2007, position 3

White to play and win
Morphy-Harrwitz

2 comments:

Louis Lima said...

The line I see so far is 1.Rxh7+ Kxh7 2.Qh5+ Kg8 3.Nxe7+ Qxe7 4.Qxg6+ Qg7 5.Qe8+ etc.- But given it is Morphy I imagine there is a prettier and shorter solution :-)

chess_planet said...

3..Kg7 is a better defense but loses after 4 Nf5+ and 5 Nd6.
Congrats for finding the right line !