If you like 1D chess, you'll probably like other chess-themed puzzles as well: https://chedoku.com/blog/chessPuzzles

I went in other direction ;-) https://topce.github.io/chess960x32/

I honestly thought this post was going to be about the Iran war.

I was confused why 3.R2 is drawing, but not 3.R4 since black can check with the knight either way, but it's fairly obvious in hindsight - if black checks instead of capturing, you don't take, you go K2 and force black into zugzwang. Clever.

Haha, i was taking N4 and N6, but didn’t figure the steps after that.

To win we need to let knight die because rook can move multiple steps to kill the king.

From a third person perspective R2 is a deceptive move that takes advantage algorithm to make the black king back off to kill its knight.

It took me an embarrassing number of attempts to win.

It was a lot more fun than I first thought!

I don’t know why this is stalemate: N4 N5, N6 K7, R5. Wouldn’t rook have the king in checkmate?

Don't know when was the last time I had so much fun with chess. Quite intuitive, clicked on the first click.

Would enjoy so much if there were more of these, feels like an obligation-free chess puzzle.

I was only able to beat this after a couple retries. The hint was hard to read.