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Rf6+?
You mean Bf6+? That's the correct first move. How do you continue after ...Kh7?
I'm no good at endgames bit but I assume it's...
Bf6 Kh7 Rg7 Kh6 (Kh8 loses to a discovered check) Then the knight is pinned and the black king is stuck on the H file, so the white king can move up and trade down to K R vs. K? You'd just have to make sure you don't get forked by a knight check when moving up.
But that seems too simple so I'm probably missing something.
The problem is that the knight can unpin itself, giving White no time to move the king up like that.
All good so far, but the line continues. Black still has a tricky defensive idea up its sleeve.
Yeah Iโve tried in a chess app with the AI difficulty set to max, the knight almost immediately ends up winning your rook and forcing a draw
After 4...Nc6 5. Bxd8 Black has a nifty intermediate move which is still losing but makes things a bit less simple.
So 5. Bxd8 Kg7 6. Re8 what do you play after ...Kf7? By the way R vs K is a technical draw (so not the solution here, even if difficult to defend for Black).
Perfect, you found the entire solution!
Nothing wrong with that. :)