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I really like the idea behind this mate, even though I saw the idea quickly, the right continuation failed to dawn on me. Nice one.

This puzzle is very hard for most chess players because when we are playing chess we tend to have tunnel vision. I mean we tend to focus all our attention on some area on the board and not the whole chess board. The solution to this puzzle is straight forward. you will have to first avoid stalemate by allowing one of the blacks pawns free and then maneuver the bishop to c7 and mate. The problem I have is pretty stupid especially for a player of my rating. for some reason I could only see the e5 pawn as the only pawn I had to free up so black doesn't stalemate. but the problem with that is after i play knight to f3 and black responds with pawn to g5 the bishop gets blocked and after i free up the e5 pawn i will have to waste a move capturing on g5 and the damned black pawn i just free up will get blocked by my bishop which results in stalemate. This combination insures i can't mate at all . I couldn't for the life of me see that I had to free up the g5 pawn instead with knight to h4 instead of knight to d4 to avoid stalemate and in the same instance the bishop would be free to start the maneuver to e5 and mate within 5 moves and i won't have to worry about stalemate. This showed me that i have to start forcing myself to look at the whole chess board. I only found the correct sequence because I had exhausted the other possibilities since i was so focused on the pieces closest to the black king. I felt like a total dummy after solving this puzzle but it taught me a valuable lesson. which is to look at the whole chess board when ever solving a hard puzzle or find myself in a tough position in a real game. But that's easier said than done though. but hey if that's what it takes to be a strong player it's what i will do and you should do as well. great puzzle with a rarely taught chess lesson behind it!! thank you justinjkropf!