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Stockfish gives 27.Rb4 28.Nxc7+ Rxb3 29.axb3 followed by. Black can exchange the queens via 24.Rad8 25.Nf4 Qd4+ 26.Qxd4 Rxd4 but after 27.Nxe6! (27.Bxe6 might be a technically winning endgame, but Black has much more hope of holding) Black will lose another exchange.

23.Qd6 24.Qe4 and Black cannot prevent the loss of the knight.

The only way to avoid it is 24.Kh7, which runs into 25.Qe4, with the simple threat of 26.Nf8 Kh8 27.Qh7# (crucially, Nf8 is a double check, so the black knight has no useful discovery)

The threat is Bxe6 and Qf7+ (in either order) to win the knight. In 2022, I have the luxury of being able to run Stockfish depth 20 via lichess, and apparently 22.Ne6 is still +2.8 (winning for White) after 23.Ng6 (the only move that keeps an edge). However, he wrote this in 2004, presumably without checking with an engine. In Kronsteen - MacAdams however, for some reason, the White pawns d4 and c5 were missing, allowing Black a vital check on c5, which enables him to put up a tenacious and possibly successful defence with 22.Ne6. 22.Kh7 was not a blunder the other possibility 22.Ne6 is met by 23.Ng6 or Qe4 and the Ne6 soon falls. He argues that the move played, 22.Kh7, is a blunder in the modified position. In addition to the other answer, that position was the subject of Tim Krabbé’s Open Chess Diary #250.