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Awesome! And quite hard, really

Well constructed. Usually the same motif counts for all of the moves, but this one had plenty of tricks along the way

Took me awhile to realize that the king had to be forced back to the back rank, or the pawn at g2 would be promoted. Sometimes the advances pawn structures in these puzzles throws me off!

you can't just promote a pawn because it would be stalemate if you dont' move your bishop around

@bigsmak
black can get the rook out if you leave the king on f2, then promote to queen. This makes things problematic.

Wow, so cool!

It's kind of like a mystery that has to be solved with pure logic. You figure out that there must be a series of checks and maneuvers by the bishop, and that at some point you have to capture the a3 pawn to give Black a move (a4-a3), to buy a necessary free move to play e5-e6 (the hardest part for me), just to maneuver the bishop on a different diagonal. Very brilliant conception! Too bad the ideas were lost on some of the kibitzers here.

How do you know jakey101 created it? Did he say he did? Lot's of people here don't give proper credit to the composer, so it wouldn't be the first time.

I didn't say he created it, I said 'if' he created it.

only took me about 10 wrong moves and 2 hints to do it  

I've been trying to improve it, and it's possible, to around 14 moves. But there are too many varieties for the website to accept, so can't enter the improvement.