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After Rxf5 Qg7 maybe holds it together though. Visualization gets very fuzzy for me after 3ply but that Rxf5 looks strong. Maybe you can even drop the LSB too and the argument is that rook, queen and DSB are just too powerful against that exposed king.
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now thinking maybe it's Rxf5 and then I am hitting the queen and also have a discovered check when I move the rook, so I think I can win the bishop on e5 next, at least.
Right move, wrong reason.
Think bigger. The bishop on e5 is mostly a spectator/last final thing to munch on once the dust has settled.
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Oh, Qg7 isn't possible because Rg5+ shielding the bishop giving the discovered check and your queen is lost. Actually, it looks like that queen is going to be lost wherever it moves.
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Eeeexactly!! Queen has nowhere to go/hide where the rook can't find her! :)
Good job
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Ok I was looking at Bxf5+ but after Kb8 couldn't see anything crushing. But now thinking maybe it's Rxf5 and then I am hitting the queen and also have a discovered check when I move the rook, so I think I can win the bishop on e5 next, at least.
And as for refusing the rook on d5, I am thinking that if you move that bishop on e5 there is Qc3+ ideas with a fork on the rook on h8.