please comment and let me know if there are better variations for white, this was simply the combination that was played in my game with my friend.
Why didn't white do Ke2?
because there are two knights protecting that square.
On 4 there are no knights
On 2 after Qd1+ White coulda taken a free queen because Whites Queen is on f3 and can do Qxd1
Also on 4 he coulda taken the rook by doing fxe3 and not have to move his king
Chasm1995 I don't mean to be mean butdo you even think? Look at the board I posted
didn't want to go up in material when I had a forced mate (at least i thought it was forced)