Self-solving puzzles

The maximummers was especially hilarious (and impressive).

Just for the record: I can do two consecutive knight moves without promotion.

mate in 2

Here is my ultimate solution with 3 consecutive knight moves and no pawn move at all:

mate in 3

Very good, I love the discovered attacks.

The position is illegal though, but it seems like it would take quite a bit of effort to set up all of those pins.

I have tried to simplify it. Now both sides have only four promoted pieces. I hope it is legal now.

mate in 3

Yes, that's a legal position. You don't even need the bishop on a7.

You're starting to get the hang of it. Good use of pins, triple pins, discovered checks and so on. Well done.

This was my solution:

Challenge: Create an 8 move long self-solving puzzle (posting solution soon).

Challenge: Create a 7 move long self-solving puzzle with no queens (posting solution soon).

New challenge: Create a 6 move long self-solving puzzle using only rooks.

i am doing your newest challenge:

MATE IN 6

Good job, this is more or less my exact same setup.

Here is the 8 move long legal self-solving puzzle:

This was quite difficult to compose, and yet I was sure at the time that it is possible to get 9 moves. Nevertheless I never managed to do it.

Here is a queenless 7 mover using rooks, bishops and knights:

Ultimate challenge:

Create a self-solving puzzle with en passant. And what I mean here is the full sequence, that is, with a pawn moving two squares forward and then the en passant capture.

This led us the an interesting discussion of whether it was possible to do it. Until finally we came up with a smart way to achieve it. So now you know it can be done, give it a shot.

How about this for Ultimate...

That's exactly how it is suppose to be done, but if you want to just change it so the end result is checkmate (this should be easier).

ajttja, I'd play 6. Kxf2 just to spoil the self-solving element of it

This was my last challenge on that thread, i have no idea if it's easy or hard since the thread died around that time.

Challenge:

Create a self-solving puzzle where one piece zig zags between two squares 3 times (or more). For example - Ra5-b5, Rb5-a5, Ra5-b5.

Good catch. Now that I think of it, I don't think 6 moves with rooks only is even possible.

Post 52 - nice puzzle, but what was Black´s last move before it started? A cosmetic flaw ...

^ Nxe7+

Edit: If you mean the 8 move puzzle, it was either Qxc7+ or Qc7+ (both are possible).

Based off BigDoggProblem's puzzle:

3.axb7 was how it was supposed to end?