Puzzle with multiple equivalent solutions?

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Only one solution is given as correct but surely there are multiple equivalent solutions to this one. Can anyone demonstrate that there is one superior solution? [The puzzle ends when the pawn is promoted.]

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CraigIreland wrote:

Only one solution is given as correct but surely there are multiple equivalent solutions to this one. Can anyone demonstrate that there is one superior solution? [The puzzle ends when the pawn is promoted.]

 

 

Do you have a link to the puzzle? It looks like there is likely only a single solution, up until promotion, to me.

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Sorry. I don't have a link to it. It came up as part of a Puzzle Rush and I could only screenshot it before it's lost to me forever.  The reason that I think there a multiple equivalent solutions is that Black can use different configurations to get to g2 and f2 safely but I can see that without knowing how White responds you can't know.

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Nevermind. I can see now that always leading with the Pawn is forcing whereas leading with the King isn't.

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CraigIreland wrote:

Sorry. I don't have a link to it. It came up as part of a Puzzle Rush and I could only screenshot it before it's lost to me forever. 

In puzzle rush, you can check all the puzzles (after the run is over). Maybe on a phone it works differently?

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