Has anybody solved this..
Zugzwang! Study by Giulio Cesare Polerio
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Yeah, but only because I've seen it before...
lol, the rook actually can defend the passer, and in fact my reflex was Rc8 a1=Q Rb8+ which uses the opposition to force the king to stand in front of the queen (pretty standard theme). the catch is that doing so transposes to a standard rook pawn draw.
anyway the solution gets easy enough with so many clues ("puzzle", "zugzwang", "only one winning move")
"the catch is that doing so transposes to a standard rook pawn draw." OK, I was curious, so I had to plug in the moves to see how that'd go.
Endgame study by Giulio Cesare Polerio 1550 -1610
White has only one winning move