lots of forking around lately.

Good stuff!  It represents the old maxim of getting as many pieces as you can around the enemy - it works!  :)

Dude!

excellent trap!!! (could not work it out...)

Hmm...

gotta love knights

rather short. so hard but so simple.stange.i cant belive only 3 moves!

I like your danish humour, cgad!

yeah, nt good

...don't forget White get's back the pawn with Nxf5

oh gosh it was soo difficult !

( I dont read the title )

great!

 If black played Qxd1 white will play Nxe7+ and wins a piece! 3 points if white takes the rook in the puzzle next move black will take back and white only gains 2 points!

nice one.

Nice puzzle.

Alternate line is better if you're the type that doesn't underestimate knights. Nice one.

This creeping dementia that comes as I grow older really sucks.
Yesterday, I spent considerable comment time describing how a situation where black was not in check but had no legal moves was a draw.  Only today did I remember that the standard name for that is "stalemate."  Communication is so much more efficient when we can remember the terms

Regarding today's puzzle:

Whether we follow the puzzle line or one of the proposed alternate lines, black must lose (trade) his queen.
I prefer the alternate move 1 ... Qd7, forcing white to exchange queens at d7 and avoiding the second fork.  White will take black's king's bishop at e7, making the black squares fairly safe for his pieces, and should be able to keep his two-knight advantage.  I think the "puzzle" line allows white to take the rook at a8 (trade a knight for a rook!).

Still, I wonder what general STRATEGY white should use to gain a WIN: King-side pawn attack?  (black has an extra pawn there) Double rooks on a single file? Picking off pawns?  Probably it is all dependent on what black does.  First things first...I think white should get his knights back where they can work with the bishop and rooks to support pawn advances (especially opening h2 as a safe haven for the king.  Generally, for white even trades (like rook for rook or knight or bishop for black's bishop) will simplify and augment white's relative advantage.

And what can Black do to try to eak out a draw?  Pretty tough when down two pieces, but black does have one extra pawn at f4.  That may be a tool toward Black forcing a draw, but White would have to make some mistakes too.

I'd love to hear what other players think are best general approaches in a situation like this.

good puzzle...

Of course!