nice puzzle.

I thing that we should give some credit to the rook and the fact that the black king was on the edge of the board helped a lot the white pieces.

nice

Easy.

Like a boss. This is a nice variant on the back-rank theme.

Atleast he gets to use it

easy, but I like the combination.

nice

too easy

nice 2 powerful rooks and a bishop...

easy

Nice

Side line bad for king 

nice :)

very good

wew..

There's only one way he would know,and your right that is karapola

Thanks for sharing. Something we all needed to know.

hmm:)

Because the puzzle has the heading "Sidelined" this makes it a bit of a giveaway to seeing the solution. But nice lesson anyway.