I found this move in a game I played yesterday. I'm still improving my chess, so I'm glad that I found this move in a 10 minutes game, even though I realized afterwards that I could have played this the previous move already.
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That wins material too, but why take the Rook by playing Nb6+ when you can win the Queen by Nf6+ ?
Because Nb6+ also wins the Queen.
Nxf6+ is probably the engine choice but, depending on the elo, I think Nb6+ is a more difficult position to handle for white and they could end up losing even more material.
For example, Nb6+ Qf7 blocking. The thought process being "if I'm going to lose my queen then I'd rather get a bishop for it than a knight". Naturally, they forget that you capture the queen with check and after they retake you have Nxa8
That would probably only work up to about 1300 though. Still worth a try imo since you are winning either way.