It took me 2 1/2 minutes to solve this one. It has a 50.4% pass rate, it's rated over 2600.

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2 1/2 minutes is outrageous. 2 1/2 seconds is the most you could justify wink

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First things that popped out at me was Qa8 or rook takes took?

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Chuck639 wrote:

First things that popped out at me was Qa8 or rook takes took?

Me too, and I also spent time looking at Qa5, but he just plays Rc8 to that.

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Queen takes queen?
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Qxd6?

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Are you serious?

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No

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Could anyone give the solution?

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There are quite a few puzzles like this even at high ratings, where - like here - you just take the hanging piece. But because the position itself looks like the answer is a common tactical theme like a back rank mate, or Qxf7, or whatever, people get it wrong. But the solution is just the simple capture, or the simple M1.

Like I said, 50.4% success rate on nearly 900 attempts.

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Blind squirrel finds Qxd6