This is a puzzle I found while browsing through articles on chessbase. Apparently the author first saw it when British GM Jim Plaskett who presented it at the tournament in Brussels 1987 (Kasparov and Ljubomir won with 8.5/11, Karpov was second with 7/11). None of the grandmasters at the tournament could solve it, except for Tal who looked at it for a few minutes and went for a walk in the park. He came back with the solution. I thought about it for more than a week, before I broke and looked at the solution. I hope you all have more will power than I did.

 

what was amazingly wild!!! who is the author?

this makes me sick

Unbelievable

georgewashington wrote: this makes me sick

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Why does it make you sick?

And the author is Gijs van Breukelen according to Chessbase's sources.

That was really insane. Do you have any more of his puzzles?

Sadly, no I don't.

Wow, and that is about all I can get out.

got the 1st move but went downhill quickly after that!

a very nice puzzle.. thanks for sharing...

My only problem with the puzzle, while it is good especially to see a reason for an underpromotion is this....which in no way did I figure out.

 Black's first responisbility should be to keep the pawn from promotion, which if someone is promoting into an obvoius fork....they probably know what is going to happen next! Which would cause KingF7 ...ND6, and by move 11. just resign man!

King and night move are in the beginning of the puzzle by the way.

unbelievable

Wow! great attacking moves by White, and what a great defence by Black!

briliant play, I couldn't get far either.

Tal must be smarter than Einstein to have solved this!

dude taht was one of the beswt puzzles i have ever seen

 

I got the first move but 2-6 were hard. After 6 it was a cat-and-mouse sorta thing. I really enojyed this one.

Wow this is very impressive. Too bad 4 black, great puzzle!

Fantastic puzzle - bravo!

Tal was the brightest of them all but I am a little surprised Kasparov didn't solve it also.