am i missing something ? seeing as my chess sucks it is highly likely ;-)

but why cant Black move his king to a6 then with e3 or e4 discovered check move pawn to b5 ?

I am sure i missing the blatantly obvious though , i am good at that...lol

peace

...Ka6 leads to Nc7# I think.

ahhh yeah good point ;-) see i miss the obvious all the time

how about:

Kd5 Rh3

Nc7#

Cool puzzle - not too hard, but still clever 

thanks :)

Might be just g4+

Cool..thanks :)

correctly got move 1, missed move 2

Interesting puzzle! 2.e4 is best though 2.e3 will open the path of the rook and can shield itself via ...Rc4