How long does it take you to solve this?

Originally posted by Chesswick
[fen]2rk2n1/3p1pNp/3B3b/pp1NP3/q6p/P2P1Q1R/KP2n3/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to move.

If/when you solve it, please specify what it was in the position that you recognized.

Qf6+ displaces the knight and leads to mate.

Here's how I found it...

1. The first thing I do when I look at any position (usually) is look for a queen sac... that kinda makes things faster 😛

2. I recognised that black didn't have any king moves and all I needed to do was land a check, hence the disregard of material.

Took about 2 seconds to find it and about another 3 or 4 to confirm that it worked... I'd hate to blow it 😛..

If this message ends up having any edits it means I was wrong 😉

Originally posted by ih8sens
Qf6+ displaces the knight and leads to mate.

Here's how I found it...

1. The first thing I do when I look at any position (usually) is look for a queen sac... that kinda makes things faster 😛

2. I recognised that black didn't have any king moves and all I needed to do was land a check, hence the disregard of material.

Took about 2 seconds to fin ...[text shortened]... I'd hate to blow it 😛..

If this message ends up having any edits it means I was wrong 😉

I like to sac my knights...makes things like this kinda of slower 😛

Originally posted by Chesswick
[fen]2rk2n1/3p1pNp/3B3b/pp1NP3/q6p/P2P1Q1R/KP2n3/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to move.

If/when you solve it, please specify what it was in the position that you recognized.

Qf6+ when after NXQ mate follows.

It took about 15 seconds. The first thing you notice is that the black king has nowhere to go so you need to divert the defenders. Once you see that a Queen sacrifice becomes obvious.

Edit: Having now read the rest of this thread I didn't recognise the position but I think 15 seconds is accurate as it took me 5 seconds just to get the overall position into my head then 2.5 seconds to find the solution but I had to think about it for an additional 7.5 seconds as I thought there was supposed to be something tricky here.

Originally posted by Chesswick
[fen]2rk2n1/3p1pNp/3B3b/pp1NP3/q6p/P2P1Q1R/KP2n3/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to move.

If/when you solve it, please specify what it was in the position that you recognized.

About 5 seconds - the Be7 was an obvious move, only blocked by the knight. Qf6 then of course the obvious move. Quite an elementary mate, indeed, though.