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Puzzle #40310- forced queen capture can be prevented

After bishop takes bishop, the pawn taking back is not a forced move. Black can instead move the rook and give check, then use the tempo to move the rook over and prevent white from taking the queen. White is still clearly winning either way but black can prevent the forced queen capture. Instead, after playing the rook move on stockfish it eventually becomes a queen trade and white will have a rook and a bishop vs. blacks single rook as opposed to the the puzzles answer of a white queen against blacks single rook.

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