A beautiful chess puzzle... that I did not create.

I can't explain why, but this is the most aesthetic chess puzzle I have ever seen. Mate in 2, white to move.

(credit: My chess calendar, American Chess Magazine Chess 2021. They took it from Dikusarov, Andrey.)

Warning: don't look at comments unless you already solved it or you are too lazy to solve.

For people to enjoy this puzzle, I will bump a couple of times.

And bump again.

Oops, this is in general chess discussion. How do you move it to puzzles?

K imma bump again. If no one will appreciate this art I found, then so be it.

This is not a puzzle. All of the moves are forced by your setup. I'm forced to move Bd4 and then Kc2. What if I wanted to play 2. Bf6?

Ummm... Bf6 is not a legal move...

1. Bd4...d2

2. Bf6....completely legal

Pretty neat. Will send move privately so I don't spoil it for others.

Oh, after Bd4. Yes, this is possible, but it is pointless and it is better to win immediately. 

Good mate-in-2 problem where the white king delivers 6 different mates by discovery – the maximum possible. Note that 1...Bd5/Be6/Bf7/Bg8 2.Kxd3 are considered a single variation as the mating move is the same. But there's another mate following 1...Bxb3.

Take Rocky's cue the next time you post a problem like this one. Your formulation is confusing. The common ways to state this and similar assignments are:

• Checkmate in 2 moves
• #2 (for experts)

Stating that white starts is optional since we always assume that.

Solved!

Nice puzzle; thanks for sharing! 

Ok, yeah it was kind of confusing. I fixed it.

Yup