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Black to move. Mate in… 6. This is not the easiest puzzle I’ve posted.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
It was a nail-biter in St. Louis… HERE Hikaru was almost beaten by the kid, Mishra. HERE
This was, as you say, Fr. Z, a rather tricky puzzle. First, I explored the possibilities of 1. . . . Ng3+, which turned out to lead to many variants ending in mate, some as short as four, but some as long as ten or eleven moves. So I started again, and found this:
1. . . . Rf2+
2. RxR QxR+
3. Kd3 Ne5+
4. KxP c7c5+
5. NxP Nc6+
6. KxN Qf5 mate
((If 4. KxN, Qf5+, 5. KxP, Nc6 mate.)