Plaskett's Puzzle

Wow !

Amazing puzzle and play by both sides ! I got about 3/4 of the moves correct and few I couldn't get at all. This is the best puzzle I have ever seen .

Nice one!

Incredible !!! I would  never thought such a sequence of moves AMAZING

Great puzzle. Got to move 7 before I looked at the solution.

A beautiful puzzle. I got the first eight, but then got confused on how to give check with the bishop without dying :D

wow. Took me several tries to figure out the moves following the fork of the king and queen. All those poor knights, thrashing and struggling to stop the inevitable :(.

This is a terrific puzzle, but it is a shame the original puzzle was wrong, making people for a long time think their computers were incapable of solving it. When the correction is made (the knight on g5 is instead on e5), Rybka can find the line without too much difficulty (it found it after about seven minutes on my middle-of-the-road laptop).

The only unfortunate thing about the puzzle with the correction is that 1. Kxe5 Ba5 2. Nxe3 looks winning for white, although only barely. At the very least, it is difficult to prove black can draw this.

EDIT: Isn't 10... Nc7? a mistake? Black can survive one more move with 10... Nc6 11. Bxc6 (11. Ba4?? Nd4+!) 11... Nc67, with essentially the same position.

gr8 puzzle it took me 10 minutes to solve it

I have a stupid question, whilst keeping in mind that less is more but, why did the other guy under promote all of those times? It seems to me the game would have been overwith long before that charade seemed so magical. I feel really dumb right now, please enlighten me. Maybe this is what I have been missing all of this time.

Sorry I was thinking out loud again. I do see the benefits of the moves that didn't make sense to me. I am only amazed that anyone could solve it. It forces you to do so many things that are contrary to the nature of the principals we are taught. I am equally amazed any one created such a puzzle.

i solved it in my first try

It took Tal an hour in the part thinking to solve this puzzle. 

It didn't just come out of hsi head in a few minutes.

i solve this after 3 years

There are many stories about this puzzle: about its origins; about Tal's solution; and about the "hidden" draw.  I see some appear on chessbase.

One which I remember being told long ago is that Tal came upon some park players on his walk, showed them the position whereupon one thought for some seconds and then demonstrated the solution which Tal brought back with him from his walk.

i solved it in just 5 mins. without click the solution, but have some trying move. i really loved puzzles especially of chess :)

I remembered some of the moves, so it was relatively easy to solve. Tal didn't just walk for a few minutes. He thought deeply for an hour and managed to solve it.