A puzzle from 1400 AD. Can you figure it out!

Nice puzzle! But it’s too easy for me, I found a solution in five seconds, it’s kind of sad that it’s so fast . But well done, good job!

Cool!

This is a mate in 2 ... some will wish to know that up front ... A real easy one, but still cool. Wonder what the 2 extra symbols on the old manuscript are about. One looks kinda Cyrillic but the text is apparently Spanish... Odd

Nice

Wow. Can't believe 2 monkeys, one Pokémon dragon, one tiger, one deer god and a black panther commented on this.

Can you translate the text for us?

You don't know how fast she did solve it. She may have solved it in 5 seconds, she may have not. Do we know? No.

I would do knight to c4.

Nc4 isn't terrible.... You're starting with a discovered check, and your knight will eliminate the threat of black's advanced pawn on the next move. But Nc4 doesn't give the mate in 2.

Hint: As white, if you get the 1st move right, black has four different replies to *attempt* to foil your plans. Not all of them are clever, and none of them work. White's second move will be one of four different moves, depending on what black just played. Each one is a checkmate. In other words, it's forced M2 by any of 4 possible paths.

Kudos to LonelyMadmonkey for posting this cool little puzzle that's apparently about 600 years old. Our language was still what we now call Middle English when this puzzle was composed. Shakespeare was a couple of centuries into the future. Chess was already old but didn't exist in the Americas because Europe didn't yet know there were 2 continents over here. (Newfoundland and Leif Erickson not withstanding).

It's a really good little puzzle in its own right, but when you think about these things it's even more impressive.

c7, Nb3