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Originally posted by kenan
Certainly not.

Hint: Almost all of the above posters brought up excellent points.
Ok.White's only hope is a perpetual check...I think I have one worked out.

1. Nxg6 Nc3+ 2. Kc1 Qxa2? (black should have taken the knight with the h-pawn here)

3. Nxe5+! (discovered check)

3..Kh8 (forced)

4. Ng6+!! Kg7

5.Ne5 Kg8
(repeat moves 4 and 5 three times and it's a draw by perpetual check)

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Woke up this morning, grabbed a random book and opened it on a random page and the first thing I saw was this exact position. Meaningless coincidence, but still.

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Alright, looked at this position with fresher eyes today.

White plays 1. Nx6 Nc3+ 2.Kc1 and..

Black doesn't take the knight on g6:

2.. Qxa2 3. Nxe5+ Kh8 4.Qh6! Qa7 5.Ng6+ Kg8
6.Ne7+! Kh8 7. Qb7#

Black takes the knight on g6:

2..hxg6 3. Rxg6+ Kf7 4. Qh6 Nxd1 6. Rxf6+ and white will be winning.

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Originally posted by bosintang
Alright, looked at this position with fresher eyes today.

White plays 1. Nx6 Nc3+ 2.Kc1 and..

Black doesn't take the knight on g6:

2.. Qxa2 3. Nxe5+ Kh8 4.Qh6! Qa7 5.Ng6+ Kg8
6.Ne7+! Kh8 7. Qb7#

Black takes the knight on g6:

2..hxg6 3. Rxg6+ Kf7 4. Qh6 Nxd1 6. Rxf6+ and white will be winning.
Nx6??

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1. White plays anything Nc3+ 2. Kc1 Na2+ 3. Kb1 Nc3+
then
4. Kc1 Qa1#

4. bxc3 bxc3+ wins the white queen

4. Qxc3 white loses the queen

white should resign

I guess white could play Rxg6+ but hxg6 seems to put an end to that.

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I am pretty sure the solution is fg! Nc3 Qc3! bc Nf5+ and if Kg8, then Nh6 Kg7 Nf5 is a perpetual, and if Kh8 g7 Kg8 Nh6 is mate. This is a CT-ART Problem.

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Yeah, that's beautiful.

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Originally posted by !~TONY~!
I am pretty sure the solution is fg! Nc3 Qc3! bc Nf5+ and if Kg8, then Nh6 Kg7 Nf5 is a perpetual, and if Kh8 g7 Kg8 Nh6 is mate. This is a CT-ART Problem.
Correct.

1.fxg6! Nc3+ 2.Qxc3!! bxc3 3.Nf5+ Kg8 (Kh8? 4.g4+ Kg8 5.Nh6# ) 4. Nh6 (or Ne7+) Kg7 5.Nf5+ 1/2, 1/2 Valbrot-Mizes, Berlin, 1894.


The next one is gonna be easier.

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1. Nxh5! gxh5 2. Bxh7+ Kxh7 3. Bxg7 Kxg7 4. Qg5+ Kh7 5. Qxh5+ Kg7 6. Ng5! with a decisive attack. It's becoming a gift that I've gone through the first four levels of CT-ART what seems like 20 times.

Edit: For what it's worth, I am almost 100% sure I've seen this problem and this is the solution, but at the end of all this Black has 6...Bf5! which defends nicely. Are you sure White has an f-pawn? That would make this problem much better!