Patterns

This position appeared in a book, The Art of the Checkmate (2015) by Georges Renaud and Victor Kahn. It appears as well in older versions of the text, but this one is in algebraic.

White to move

From Pillsbury -- Wolf, Monte Carlo 1903.

"Here Pillsbury missed the bus."

Renaud and Kahn point out that Pillsbury played a move that was winning, but he had two other moves that win much faster. The faster win was pointed out after the game by an amateur, James C. Boyce.