Why couldn't black play Qf5 to get out of trouble?
after 3. QxR .. Nb8xNc6 so it would be rook for two knights
4. Rxc6 looks like it could get white into trouble, but i'd need to spend longer than i want to looking at it (there's the threat of Qf3+ to win the rook and also to push the pawn for promotion if the white queen defends the rook)
The knight check coupled with that passed pawn buys tempo to get the queen out then take the knight threatening mate with the pawn on f6.
Can someone run it through their chess analyser and see if there's a forced mate?
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