Practical Puzzle

This arose in a game of mine.  White to play and have a queen in 6 moves.  Do you see it?

ha ha first haha

lol

nice.took a while to understand 1st move cause was thinking bout king taking the pawn 

nice one,thx

fifth!

Good puzzle.

Wow all we need is some people to say easy every other post and we have a daily puzzle./

The goal of the problem shouldn't be white to play and queen in 6. Rather white to play and win. Because even though you say "of course not 2...Kxd6", that isn't really worse than letting you queen. Yes, black loses both ways, but I think it might even actually take longer to mate if he gives the rook.

it's a tougher puzzle after Kd7.

Good puzzle!

ADK

Isn't 3. Kc6 just as good?

You are correct.  However, as it is only possible to display one solution, most people go for Ke6 first so I put down that one.

keeping the topic alive..

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pretty good

The best response for black is taking the pawn. This is a winning position for white so there's no real deal on this solution. Spite all this it was nice to see it though.