Moving the knight looks best as it is preventing the queen from covering the rook. It has a lot of options that are mostly bad. We can simply eliminate those to arrive at the correct one (least bad)
Ng5
: I kinda liked but then the queen no longer covers the f5
pawn.
Nh4
: Now we invite black to just take the knight. If he does things like Qf7 > Qd5
don't give anything interesting. If Qd5
doesn't result in check the knight takes the f5
pawn covering d6
. If black doesn't take the knight on h4
white has only uninteresting moves left.
Ne5
: The black knight can just take it and cover f7
in the process.
Nd4
: Interesting but we haven't the technology to pin the queen to the king after the pawn takes. Its just a waste of material.
Nd2
: Also interesting, it prepares the knight to take on the d6
pawn. Sadly the black queen has both c4 and e4 covered. If the black queen takes a2
however, then Ne4
becomes possible. Sadly this isn't forced and black has Ne5
which escapes capture and isn't a bad place to be for it.
This leaves Ne1
attacking the queen or the fairly uninteresting rook moves of which f1
is the most spectacular (joke) or Rook e1
. It seems white has good odds pushing his pawn into an exchange.
Rf1
seems dull but black has to do something to keep his knight. With the white knight covering e5 it cant both move away and prevent Qf7+
. But after Qf7+
things don't get dramatically more interesting for white.
Ne1
is really the only option as it both attacks and prevents black from Qg2+!
followed by Nf4+
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