The Puzzle
The puzzle of the centuryJanuary 19, 2025
Around these days, I was messing around with the editor - without knowing that I would create a puzzle so difficult that even the strongest engine at the time - Stockfish 16.1 Would say that my invention was utter nonsense.
Creating the puzzle
After 1 minute of solid thinking, I found this position:
After I found the puzzle
At first, I thought it was just winning for white but that wasn't the case. At first the engine gived +5.9 for white for just 25 miliseconds. After it thinked for a second, it gived equal. And after half a minute the eval was bouncing around -1.7 and 0.0. Then I said wait a minute, black can actually win this! At first I was shocked,thinking that black's attack shouldn't be enough. But then I went to breakfast and left the engine afk for 25 minutes. After I came back, I was shocked to see -3.4 on the eval bar. I was like holy, that's 2 times bigger then -1.7! After 2 hours of analysing the position on my alt, I gave up the question for 11 months after I came back to take a look again. After that I found so much things that I was even more amazed.
If the pawn wasn't on f5
Hoped you all enjoyed this mind-blowing puzzle!
People who helped out
Thanks so much! This blog will be updated if needed.
04.01.2026 ~@mvnh

