if you solve this in 9 moves you are genius🧠🧠🧠

                                                      post your answer in the comments   ( black to move )

hint: pawn checkmate

bro wrong i say pawn checkmate

that is pawn checkmate d5#

"Black to move", when the picture clearly shows that black moved last? What kind of chess is this?

The pieces are non-standard so I wouldn't even bother with it. You need to use standard, non-confusing pieces.

Me *solving it in 1 move*

D5

i solved it for white

and it isn't even 9 moves 🤦‍♂️

This is Conrad Bayer's well known problem, where you have put in some useless pieces, also some wrong ones, swapped colors, and marked the wrong side to move.

Not bad, but well, I think that anyone with IQ >50 can do better than that.

i see...

no wonder it felt so easy

Depends on how low the bar is for the term "genius".

The Stanford-Binet IQ tests long defined 140+ as genius (back in the 1960s when schoolchildren were given such tests only one of the three that I was administered had a score over 140). Mensa accepted a minimum of 132+ (all three of mine met that).

True genius, however, has to be for something more than just test taking. Flashes of genius are seen in a much larger percentage of the population (I've had flashes of genius) but that is not enough to truly be considered a genius. With the expansion of the number of fields of knowledge it is incredibly difficult to be an overall genius, so you see the top people in various fields being considered a genius in those fields even if they are not particularly proficient outside of them (and if the field is deemed to be prestigious enough then such geniuses might even be considered geniuses by the general population regardless of how proficient they are outside those fields that have prestige).

If it's black to move (contrary to appearences) what's wrong with 1...RxQ#?

Read Mazetoskylo's comment (#14). It explains everything.

ok -ta.