Quote Originally Posted by CoccoBill View Post
Bugger. If 1. a7 Qe5 I'm not sure if it works. I'd still bet the first move is a7 since that's the only way to kick out the Q which seems to be key.
I think you're on the right lines noticing that black's only moves are queen moves, but given that, why do we need to "kick" the queen when simply making a waiting move has the same effect? a7 looks kinda cute but it doesn't do anything that Kg7 doesn't do. If we play Kg7, he still has to move the queen, only we unpinned the bishop too, so I'll be really surprised if it's a7. The move would have to do something other than kick the queen, perhaps stopping the queen going back to b8.

I don't think Kg7 is the solution because again, Qe5 slows the attack down. I don't think it's either of the knight moves I wanted to try either, I can't make either of them work.