Best Chess Puzzle

Originally posted by Bowmann
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Any relation?

The tree is known by its fruit.

Originally posted by Xpofer
Wooops.

ok here.

1.Qc8 Kg8 2.Bc7?? Qxc8 3. gxf7+ Kh8 4.Be5 Qc5! 5.Bb2?? Nc7 6.Ba1 *a4* 7.Bb2 *a3* 8.Bb1

7. Bb2 a3 8. Ba1?
What now?

Yeah. I didn’t see Ba1 for some reason. After a2 Bb2 a1 forced and mate in four. I showed this to a strong IM and he showed me what I had missed. The moves set off alarm bells in my head, I just feel that Bc7 is not good, but it is. It is a move that is very counterintuitive for me.