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Solution to this puzzle? I can’t make anything of it. Positions seem pretty even, both kings reasonably well defended (though black is better). All the lines I’ve explored just amount to trades.
Black to move and gain material.
1. … Qb6 (xrays the enemy Q)
2. Qxb6 Nxe2
3. Kh2 cxb6
NB the “between move” which is always better in German: Zwischenzug. That intermediary check allows the gobbling of an extra piece.
Black is now a piece up and has the well-placed OctoKnight, a fitting nemesis of Spiderman controlling two of white’s K’s running squares. Surely now worth more than a paltry 3.