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Unbelievably hard puzzle! (rating 3000+, white to move)!
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wonderful, it does seem a bit reliant on a couple of non forced moves by black though
Feb 25, 2019
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wollyhood wrote:
wonderful, it does seem a bit reliant on a couple of non forced moves by black though
Wow - this is a great puzzle 
I actually spent a while with this position and its variations. Interestingly, Black really is forced here. I checked every move in question I found and Black loses the Queen to a fork or skewer or in some tactic from every square that doesn't outright lose instantly. This is a really nice endgame study; I am glad to now have seen it. I wonder what kind of mind it takes to compose a study like this? There are so many variations and possibilities, yet it seems that White wins in every one with correct play!
Really! Thanks Kesoto I'd have to be a better player to see how it's forced right xD Still fun to see the path out.
I thought lots of these studies were taken from real games but yeh I guess if you were designing them you could work backwards from the end position to create them making sure there were forced moves all along the way for one side, and mainly only one "solution".
Feb 17, 2021
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I don’t know if this works, but if you play Kd3 black is forced to play Qb1+ because of the fact that white threatens checkmate on Bc7; this leads to Ke2 because the queen no longer threatens further checks without getting captured by the white king or knight, which forces a move from the queen that is a sacrifice because they cannot block mate. I’m only rated about 1000 average across blitz bullet and the standard but I’m fairly certain that this is the quickest way for white to end the game, although I’m not sure if there are any moves I missed that black can play to prevent this.
EASY PEASY
another not very credible person with a light opinion, waste of typing!
Aug 18, 2022
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Even with the solution it took me a while to work out why the Queen is forced to take on f2. Working out when a piece has dangerously limited options is always a hard problem.
anyone know how to get a good position here?
I'm gonna be honest, it took me around 40minutes to solve this puzzle, at first i tried moving White's bishop around to give checks but it didn't work out and then i tried moving king side pawns to deliver a check with them to the Black's king but no matter how i check it shows incorrect, as time passed i got numb and thought of taking a hint but again i refused to do so and tried tried tried finally idk why but i moved pawn to c6, like literally i had no idea on the logic in moving the pawn at first but i just moved and when it showed correct i got all motivated and then i played two moves right and again got the third move wrong but then i finally got it!
Truly amazing puzzle... not at all ez.
This isn’t that hard. I got it in 5 minutes.
I suppose i do too many puzzles in my spare time
This is unbelievable hard puzzle. I feel like that it is a famous composed puzzle or endgame study, so I think about 30 mins and I give up!! Later , I found that this is one of Leonid Kubbel's puzzles, wheras he won many prizes.
https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/44015