A puzzle that not even grandmasters or engines could solve... until Tal comes in.

This is the puzzle that grandmasters and engines couldn't solve... Until Mikhail Tal came in. See if you can solve this crazy puzzle, chess lovers!

Nice one. I have seen this before, and it is excellent!!

Good. Have you manage to solve this puzzle without hints?

Haha. I had to use hints for a few of the moves, but it kind of follows a similar pattern so I was able to solve it without TOO many hints.

Anyone else managed to solve this puzzle?

Tal is one of a kind. If his health was average, if he was not an alcoholic, Tal would be contender for Greatest of All Time.

This story is repeated every month with the same glorification of Tal. There are many problemists with equal and even better skills to Tal and other GMs. Solving puzzles is not the distinguishing trait of the top flight of chessplayers. It is a talent and a skill in itself and it can be trained. Note that I score amongst the GMs in Puzzle Rush every day though I am a most average chessplayer.

Actually, what everyone thinks is the difficult part of the puzzle - the knight promotions - is extremely easy for experienced problemists. They would solve this puzzle in no more then 5 minutes if it started there. There are however a few moves in the beginning of the solution which require some difficult chess analysis. Tal never did that analysis but just guessed it was allright. So did the author and so did every solver until the engines came. Didn't help. Up to this day (as far as I know) there is an unclear variation with a good plus score for white but with a still uncertain outcome. Negotiating this obstacle is what makes the puzzle hard!

I'm a total newbie at chess and quite young and suprisingly I solved this puzzle without hints in about 4 minutes?

Perhaps nobody explained to you the difference between a knight and a queen?

(1st page for the first time lol)

I am trying to solve it and am still stuck on the fork move.

Edit: I finally solved it !!! With no hints too.