White to play. Puzzle from today's match Daniel Narodistky vs Magnus Carlsen, Bullet Chess Championship

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spoiler

Only one move doesn't lose the game for white:

Rxa8 Bxe2 2. Nd7 Qxc2 3. Nxf8+

White has to give up his queen to force a perpetual check.
I spent so much time trying to figure out the solution, only to check the game to discover that white's actual play was to tank for 30 seconds and then resign.
- That doesn't mean that he should have resigned...
  
  Maybe, but I'm going to assume the GM is better than I am lol. I didn't find a winning line for white after staring at it a lot longer than he did; just amusing that someone posted a puzzle with no solution.
- I straight gave up after staring for 2 mins
Move the king, then work with the knight and pawns. Hopefully get white queen out and pick off the black bishop to free things up a bit.

I suck at chess though
How do I send this board to lichess stockfish?

Also, someone please tell me the counters for this: White Qe4 check, then White Queen takes the c6 pawn, a few swaps and then white is up on material.

I'm missing something super obvious. (Ultra casual player)
- You can use the browser extension for chessvision.ai, which uses the same technology as the Reddit bot. Anyway, this is the Lichess analysis board
  
  After Qe4+, black can defend with f5, and white can't protect the queen and the rook at the same time.
  
  Thanks for the links.
  
  ...and thanks for the analysis, I managed to not consider the f file. :P

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