Weekly Puzzle #2 (November 10/11-16/17, 2025)

Weekly puzzle. 6 days to solve. Counts for puzzle points. Red to move, how to react?

it looks hard

I would play d2-d3 to prevent b Nc4 and to attack red bishop.

I prefer d2d3 over d2xe3. Taking the pawns is an unnecessary trade which forces your king into weird positions due to blue's knight on a5

In hyper, it'll be d2xe3 but if we're talking rapid that pawn is marching right on forward to d3.

One thing I thought about is that if we played d2xe3, blue would likely play a5c4. I noticed that blue has a relatively high elo of 2200, while yellow was still around 1400 (I may be wrong), so blue would likely find the move. If green were higher rated, they would most likely play f1xc3+, forcing our king to move and losing a bishop for a knight.

d2xe3

how about na3

everyone who said d3 are correct

I still don't like the position after d3, though it's the best move. Green can march on with e2 later.

I think the last red move of b5 was a mistake, a5 seems better

dxe3 is straight up losing a bishop