Hardest Chess Puzzle Ever ?

White to move and win
Plaskett's Puzzle
Watch the detailed solution here.
https://youtu.be/kRJsXbyBuD8

That's a nice 16 minute video. I made it through the first 2 minutes. Then I went looking for the puzzle.The puzzle has been published here many times-- first in 2007.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/plasketts-puzzle   

Try it yourself first. If you haven't seen it before, it will knock your socks off.

History of the puzzle: https://en.chessbase.com/post/solution-to-a-truly-remarkable-study

 Also tells the story of the puzzle's being brought before leading Grandmasters in 1987 by James Plaskett. Puzzle was reportedly solved after an hour by Tal.

Credits the puzzle to Dutch composer Gijs van Breukelen.

I think this is the study that Praggnanandha solved blindfolded.

No that's not the one. He solved a different one.

Did you know that you can edit and/or delete mistaken posts?

yeah i know that trick

I found a much quicker solution

It's OK te repost this puzzle endlessly. But stop claiming it is the hardest puzzle ever. It was never all that hard for human solvers (grandmasters are not the best puzzle solvers by a long way).  It used to be difficult for engines but they matured as well.

It is just a very good endgame study with an exciting theme.

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A beautiful puzzle composed by Shimon

I solved it!!! (I finally found the idea of the puzzle after attempt 7 lol) 

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those are good chess puzzles but i believ there are harder ones

Yes there are! You merely have to check the puzzles posted here by @drdos7 in the past weeks. Almost all of them are harder than this one. And there are many others. Many endgame studies composed after the year 2000 are extremely hard to solve as they were made with the help of engines and tablebases.

That is to say, unless you apply a more sensible approach to the challenge of "solving" and look for themes (ideas) and aesthetics (beauty). The prize-winning studies all have those characteristics. The endgame study under discussion is famous because it scores heavily in both departments, not because it's hard. It is in fact pretty easy which makes it pleasurable to solve or witness its solution.

The myth is that many super-GMs couldn't solve it. Most will solve it in the end, even though they are less capable of that feat than the League of Extraordinary Puzzle Solvers. What happens in these myths is that players involved in a high-level chess tounament fill their spare moments with the fun stuff that goes around. Like this puzzle. After 10 minutes they shrug their shoulders and move off to their preparations for the next round, a drink in the bar or their beds for catch-up sleep. Quite different from how they would approach it in a less distractive environment.

This puzzle makes no sense, and in fact it's not really a puzzle at all. After e5+, Kd5 from black is a massive blunder, giving white a forced mate in 6. Black can just play Kc7 instead of Kd5, and then the game continues in quite boring fashion but of course still completely winning for white. Instead of e5+, white should play the much stronger Bg5+, which prevents the Kc7 retreat and probably leads to forced mate in 20+ or 30+ moves after something like Kc6.

If you want to share this as a puzzle it should start with the Kd5 blunder because the previous moves were not forcing or even accurate.

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