Spring Puzzle

Checkmate in Moves

Knight jumps to the square c3 and the black king is lying there - that ship has sailed? Nope, the square is covered by bishop g7. Good - what about b6? No, not a good idea either, the rook and bishop are still holding the position. Ok, spoiler alert for Spring Awakening - aren't the defenders somehow to be blocked in order to overthrow the Black Regent directly? Or is the attack this way doomed from the start and something else must be devised? Perhaps you simply need to take a different, new path for spring. For success, you only need three steps here.
Manual
Move for White with the best possible moves and achieve checkmate before the countdown expires. Black responds automatically and tries to prevent the checkmate.
Chesspuzzle: 190

Solution moves

Chess composer
Alois Johandl
Ligue d’Alsace des Echecs, 1972/73
Statistics
Fails: 8 // Checkmate: 0