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Very straightforward. The two knights will chase the black king all over the board giving the rook the opportunity to finalise the task
3 stars..

Two rounds of horseback riding, and the rook finishes the job, funny!!

Fun to solve if a little repetitive. Tripped on one move because I wasn't paying attention, otherwise a case of making the most reasonable, checking moves.
Still had to give some thought on move 30, so gave this 3 stars  

The power of knights!


P.S.: Anyone else finds mrfery annoying?

In the more common Hard Puzzles, usually it's composed by Mate in 2/3 problemsw, which hardest part is to find the 'quiet' moves which aren't easy to see, made only for compositions to receive several awards.

So, this Mate in 31 problem is actually a more easier problem than the usual Hard Puzzles that gameknot shows. Since it's a very long variation, we can always assume it starts with forcing moves, e.g checks or quite obvious moves that forces a only one response. The funny part is that the knights's manuever is only to force Black's king to take White's g6-pawn, and then make a simple mate in 2 with Black's king on g5 after 30.Rg8+ Bg6 31.Rxg6#.

P.S: ebutaljib, I suppose the annoying part on mrfery is his insistance on judge every puzzle, with sometimes uncomprehensible methods, isn't it?

Chased through the countryside and all hopes dashed away when face to face with the castle, interesting puzzle...

never seen "mate in 31" before!

I disliked this challenge, very ingenious, but you can't learn something usefull with it. The only one that can learn something with this puzzle was the guy that built it.

All time record. Composed by Blathy in 1889 at this link:
Susanpolgar.blogspot.ca/2006/12/record-mate-in-292-moves.html? m=1
As some posters like to say : cute!! I have no computer chess soft to give it a try but the solution is somewhere in the same site....
good luck

This puzzle had been published in different sites amongst them the very respected Susan Polgar blogs site. The position might be illegal but the whole idea is the fertile imagination of the compose back in 19th century. ...

Game Knot has some limit to the number of half-moves a puzzle can have in it's solution tree (i.e. all moves graph). I remember estimating it at ~1600 half-moves, and a mate in 292 has 583 half-moves in the main line alone. If it's not forcing checks all the way, but has a recurring quite move every so often (based on my current attempt to solve it), with a substantial alternative from black *cough* Nh6! it easily gains the other 1000 half-moves and then some.
I for one don't want to suggest kingdawar or anyone really, enter 1599 half moves (well the compute enters half so 800) then find it is not post-able.  

Check also puzzle #89279

And as always chesscode deleted his fake puzzle. Nomore puzzle #184193

Got dizzy after a while. Interesting composition.