White to play and win

The last of the group of three Wotawa puzzles sent in by Christian who said, “This is currently my favourite study but it isn’t easy, there’s an amazing hidden idea in the solution which I found very surprising!”

I couldn’t agree more – it takes a bit of work to solve this but it is worth it as the solution is very elegant.

Solution

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