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Puzzle 79358 main line

Hi,

The puzzle in lichess.org/training/79358 is a really nice one, but the main line checked by the computer is not the most important\intereseting one for the solution of the puzzle.

The rook sacrifice 1...Rc2! is correct, but the variant checked by the computer is
1...Rc2 2.Qxc2 Nf2+ 3.Qxf2 , which is maybe the best by the computer, but not the most important to check that someone solved the puzzle.
A more interesting continuation is 3.Kg1 Ng4+ 4.Rc7!! Deflecting the queen from the defence on f2, to initiate smothered-mate pattern.

If you can change the main line it would make this puzzle more effective.

Thanks :)
The lines you give are incomplete.

Presumably the first should read: 1...Rc2 2.Qxc2 Qxe3+ 3. Kh1 Nf2+ 4.Qxf2

I can't make sense of the "more interesting" continuation you give because White doesn't have a rook that can reach c7 even if it were useful to do so.

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