Difficult Puzzles Part 3

Difficult Puzzles Part 3

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Hello everyone! Welcome to a NEW Series, where I will be putting some hard, yet rewarding puzzles if you solve them. The post will usually consist of one new puzzle and the solution to the last puzzle. 

The solution of the puzzle is always NOT one move, so be sure to calculate to the very end and find the best move for the opponent as well! "The goal of me putting up these puzzles is to trick you, incidentally, which is also the goal of your opponent. And yes, it's totally fair." (A Quote from Jacob Aagaard).

Remember, this is meant to be for fun, and it is supposed to boost your ego or squash it if deserved!


Puzzle 3:

White to move, and win.
Yes, This is an endgame study. 
Good Luck!

Solution to Puzzle #2:

Reflections
When we are calculating, we often reject some moves immediately, because our "Chess brain" would simply ignore looking at moves we don't like. But it's essential to know that calculation needs to be concrete, we can't not calculate something simply because we don't "like" that move. Sometimes, we our opponent has an attack that's not really threatening, yet we tend to fear "ghost". Like Qh4!! in puzzle 2, I even missed this move because my brain thinks "why would I move the queen back to where I just came from? "This is an aspect we should try to get better at. Even me  

Congratulations! You have made it the end! Any questions, comments, feel free to leave it below.

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