What's white's best move here?

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laurengoodkindchess

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What is white's best move here? This position was taken from a game that I recently played.  

elioroca

Rh1

elioroca

Wining the Queen for the rook

PhilippineDoggo

Rh1, pinning the Queen to the King.

apologetic-egotist89

Rh1 and call me Mr. steal your girl!

LitterPicker

Black replies with Rh4 though, right? It's a free Rook, but you don't get to steal Her Majesty.

PhilippineDoggo
LitterPicker wrote:

Black replies with Rh4 though, right? It's a free Rook, but you don't get to steal Her Majesty.

rh4 is bad, since white gets +5, instead of just letting the queen die, leaving white with 4 points.

eric0022
LitterPicker wrote:

Black replies with Rh4 though, right? It's a free Rook, but you don't get to steal Her Majesty.

 

The layer of defence is actually futile. Her Majesty will still remain captured.

 

So this game was a 2|1 bullet game. I had expected the game to come from blitz or rapid.

PhilippineDoggo
eric0022 wrote:
LitterPicker wrote:

Black replies with Rh4 though, right? It's a free Rook, but you don't get to steal Her Majesty.

 

The layer of defence is actually futile. Her Majesty will still remain captured.

 

So this game was a 2|1 bullet game. I had expected the game to come from blitz or rapid.

How?

jedzz
LitterPicker wrote:

Black replies with Rh4 though, right? It's a free Rook, but you don't get to steal Her Majesty.

If ... Rh4, then Rxh4 takes the free rook AND renews the pin.

laurengoodkindchess

Rh1 is the correct move, everyone!  Yay!

1Luceman

Call Uber Eats and eat a pizza while trying to solve it!   RHI and surprise the black widow!

1Luceman

I swear I came up with my own answer before you posted it!

 

PhilippineDoggo
PhilippineDoggo wrote:
LitterPicker wrote:

Black replies with Rh4 though, right? It's a free Rook, but you don't get to steal Her Majesty.

rh4 is bad, since white gets +5, instead of just letting the queen die, leaving white with 4 points.

I guess I didn't see that the Queen is still pinned after Rxh4.