Difficult powerful combination.

Let's be honest, when you comment saying how awesome this puzzle is, and how you solved it: did you solve it going one move by one move? or did you take the real way out, and calculate it all? Probably not the latter, as you will never admit you did it move by move. Solving thing whole thing in your own head entirely requires great board vision.

Anyways, enjoy. I posted quite a bit of annoatations.

The final position is great for white, equal material, but black has a few serious problems in that his king is always under a threat to be mated (queen and knight are a perfect combo in such positions), and white has the clear plan of advancing his kingside pawns. Black is not developed either so this position is clearly winning, but it will take some technique to prove it. He can probably start with h4 freeing the back rank, followed by Qf4+ picking up the h6 pawn.

man that was a tough one, way too hard for me, damn i suck

I also forgot one very important subvariation posted in the PGN. I apologize if anyone was wondering about it and asked why doesn't black play that?

These are beautiful variations show how powerful the queen and knight can work when properly coordinated when against a misplaced piece such as the queen on g6. So the bishop is poisoned.

I guessed the first 4 moves correctly because they looked like puzzle moves :p No, I did not calculate to the end lol (although I always try to when I solve seriously).

Didn't find 5.Nc4+ because it looked like he was escaping on c5.  I gave up way too early to have hope of spotting 8.Bf1 in that line, a nice move.  Couldn't spot the Qf7-h5 transfer either.

Your puzzles are usually really hard, so I don't mind guess and check method hehe.  Maybe some day I'll sit down and analyze for a while to see what I can come up with.  I liked this attack.

Wow, after 14.Ne4+ that's a pretty puzzle in itself.

In the original puzzle why not 8. Ne3+ ? Seems like an improvement to me.

So where do you get these?  From computer analysis of your games?   You probably learn a lot by putting these posts together.  A good exercise I think.  I should do more of this myself, makin' me feel lazy :p

Looks like it, queen protects the back rank.

8.Ne3+ Ke5 9.Rxe6 Kxe6 10.Qxf5+ Ke7 11.Qh7+ leads to a very similiar position, you are right, it is just as good, probably even better than what i posted. I missed this, should have mentioned that.

I am simply great at finding positions of interest that will peak people's interest. I have a hard time solving my own puzzles, so I usually post material I find difficult for myself.

Really nice puzzle. I couldn't find 6.Qf7! from start but played them anyways and found 6.Qf7 and the rest after I played the first 5 moves. I don't usually see these "calm" moves in a tactical sequence's 6th move :D

Nice puzzle! As usual, I had to cheat a couple times:-)

Indeed, as I noted in the OP's diagram/PGN, seeing Qf7 from the far is very impressive tactical vision, along with Qh5.

I would have so much more motivation to dissect this position if I was actually playing this position in a tournament . Positions have more meaning to me when they affect the outcome of one of my games.