It took me 2 1/2 minutes to solve this one. It has a 50.4% pass rate, it's rated over 2600.

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JeremyCrowhurst

Arisktotle

2 1/2 minutes is outrageous. 2 1/2 seconds is the most you could justify wink

Chuck639

First things that popped out at me was Qa8 or rook takes took?

JeremyCrowhurst
Chuck639 wrote:

First things that popped out at me was Qa8 or rook takes took?

Me too, and I also spent time looking at Qa5, but he just plays Rc8 to that.

snoozyman
Queen takes queen?
ImBrookeMonk

Qxd6?

SIgeorgeBush

Are you serious?

Dual4Chess

No

VenemousViper

Could anyone give the solution?

JeremyCrowhurst

There are quite a few puzzles like this even at high ratings, where - like here - you just take the hanging piece. But because the position itself looks like the answer is a common tactical theme like a back rank mate, or Qxf7, or whatever, people get it wrong. But the solution is just the simple capture, or the simple M1.

Like I said, 50.4% success rate on nearly 900 attempts.

CenterMass51075

Blind squirrel finds Qxd6