White to play and mate in six.
Hint:Black's queen has the responsibility of covering the potential mates by Ng8 and Nd5. This means that if it were Black to move, then he would have to allow mate in one, because any queen move loses control of one of the two critical squares, while a knight move necessarily obstructs the queen. However White cannot maintain the status quo, and in fact he has a few reasonable moves himself, since he cannot allow Black to start checking. This means that it should be possible to find the solution by a process of elimination.
Very good, but too tough for me. I fluked the 1st move, and was lost after that
Nice, whose the composer?
Kraemer
These puzzles are really good. Hope you have lots.
I just put Chess Problem 17
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