MATE IN TWO

you know, there's an awesome feature, "puzzles", designed to post puzzles. Why post diagrams?

Woooooooooooow, i spent too long on this one,,,First, thank you scarjo for giving me the theme, your Qg4+ helped a lot in finding the solution  and here's my solution: (select the blank area below to see the answer): 

1.Qg6!+

if 1...Rxg6 cxd8=N#

if: 1...Ke5 Qd6# notice the black queen is pinned (i spent most of the time thinking about a mate in one after K takes e5 , still proves you may not spot a mate in one in a short time!)

Ohhhh, I overlooked the c pawn!!

I believe Scarjo is right, the solution must be:

1. Qg4+ Rxg4 2. cxd8=N#

Scarjo's second solution, however, does not work:

1. Qg4+ Kxe5 2. Bxg7+ Bf6

Mehdipiero's solution is great, thank you!

I initially thought "Well done reflaxion" but what if 1....Kxe5, his rook is now pinned, but his king has 2 squares d4 and f4 to escape a further check.

ok since everyone revealed everything, there is not much left to be hidden. i'll quote my previous post again, but with no white font:

 It's a variation in both my move lists.  If 1. ... Kxe5, 2. Qd6#.

Yes and thank you.  You are completely correct.

Reflexian solution is good (?) but your final position is is not check-mate. King walks out of danger !! I saw this position in CHESS FORUM ( now closed) in 2004. You are free to try chess engines even they find it tricky !!!

If by "tricky" you mean it won't find mate in 2 automatically, this is true unless the engine has a matefinder mode. It will look for the win and "settle" for that.

 How does black's king walk out of danger?

1Qg6+ Rxg6 and the e5 pawn is now protected so 2 cxd8=N#

or 1...Bf6 and 2 Qxf6#

or 1...Kxe5 and black's queen and rook are now pinned so 2Qd6# works.

This puzzle drove me so nuts I didn't believe reflexian's solution when he handed it to me.  Now you are wrecking it without explanation.

Again, thank you reflexian, and thank you Hamiduddin for a truly superior puzzle.

Nice puzzle

Mehdipiero,

I guess you actually solved it first.  I thought you were making a joke until I tried "right-clicking" on the blank space and then clicking "select all".

So I should be thanking you as well.  Thank you.

A neat almost-solution: Qg5. I doesn't work, however, because black can check white.