My 7 most amazing chess study compositions/discoveries and puzzles!

Hello everyone! 

In this post I am going to share with you my chess studies that I have mostly created, but sometimes also discovered (from my games for example) over the course of the last 2 years that I've been playing on chess.com. 

The list goes from 'worst' to 'best', but don't worry, they're all incredibly fascinating! It does not, however, go from easiest to hardest, but from least beautiful to most beautiful.

PLEASE LOOK AT THE ANNOTATED ANSWER AFTER YOU ATTEMPT SOLVING - The mainline is not the best part of them, but the ideas behind the moves, carefully explained in the sidelines. 

Don't worry if you don't solve any of them. They're all quite hard  

Enjoy!

#7

This study is actually one of the more recent ones. I have actually made it by accident, when trying to create my zugzwang study (study #1) and it turned out to be a sweet byproduct of it. It's much simpler than the other studies/puzzles, but it's nonetheless quite pretty.

#6

This is my first study I composed. I used a real 3D chessboard to move the pieces. The way I created it was by setting up a mating position and then trying to go backwards. Then the hardest part was combining my ideas and making sure that there's only 1 winning line for white. The way I knew when my study was complete was when I managed to make the study start with and amazing first move. I then veryfied the study with the engine, correcting some errors and adding some more layers of difficulty.

This is the only position which was actually played in one of my games, but
it's very study like and since this position was obviously never
reached/analyzed before, we can say I 'discovered' it. But nevertheless it's so
beautiful that I'm sure you won't regret it

#4

At the end of 2020 I played a tournament and obtained a similar position, which
ended in a draw. I thought there was a lot of potential with these kinds of
positions, so I experimented with moving some pieces until I (with the help of
an engine) found a beautiful combination in this position. So we cannot say it's
a fully 'composed' study, but we cannot say it's from a game neither. This
endgame might be one of the hardest, if not THE hardest study of mine.

#3

This is a fully composed study, made by myself from scratch! It's one of my
best, hardest and most beautiful studies I made so far.

#2

Tal fans, you'll love this one! This position was inspired by one of my games, but never actually happened in a
game, but it features one of the most amazing and brilliant attacking ideas in
all of chess. In fact I would call this one of the most amazing combinations POSSIBLE in chess. Although I didn't fully 'create' this postion from scratch, I did 'discover' it and kept digging into it, despite the engine taking ages to understand what happens.