GameKnot: Chess related, drawing puzzle....

Chess related: drawing puzzle....

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tactical_abyss 24-Jun-11, 14:09	Deleted by tactical_abyss on 24-Jun-11, 14:16.
tactical_abyss 24-Jun-11, 14:22	Complex puzzle? Can you solve this puzzle that is certainly not easy?Or is it?White cannot win,but can draw in this puzzle to solve.Note whites threating Queening pawns,yet he is threatened with mate.I will reveal my source later.
tactical_abyss 24-Jun-11, 14:24	Also,with the above puzzle...there is only 1 move that will lead to a draw,any other move will lead to a mate,no matter what the move is!
tactical_abyss 24-Jun-11, 14:26	also...white to move in the above puzzle!Forgot to mention that!
perdurabo 24-Jun-11, 16:24	Interesting position; certainly a composition, I assume... I mean, if this is from a real game I would love to see it Queening a pawn leads to checkmate after Ne8+ (discovered check). So the solution would have to be d8=N (underpromotion) which attacks the dangerous rook on f7 and thus eliminates the mate threat. Am I even close to the solution? Though what I fail to see is, why this is only a draw?
perdurabo 24-Jun-11, 16:34	Okay, I think I've got it figured out: 1. ... d8=N 2. Rxc7 b8=Q 3. Ne6+ Qxc7 (otherwise it's checkmate) 4. Nxc7
tactical_abyss 24-Jun-11, 18:43	Thanks perdurabo, Looks like you figured out something close to a draw,but I still see black having an edge there,with your solution. Well,I haven't really analyzed everything in this puzzle,I picked it out of the USCF magazine. Take a look: Here is the solution that he composed(2nd board down on the link page). main.uschess.org You can find other ususual chess problems on that link page as well. Enjoy!
perdurabo 25-Jun-11, 05:07	Thanks for that link. Some interesting stuff. And the solution to that puzzle is amazing/funny and in a way even beautiful.

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