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A Very Complex Record Holding Chess Puzzle With 6 Underpromotions

September 3, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video I am analyzing a very complex chess puzzle composed by English chess composer Harold Lommer! In Lommer’s puzzles underpromotions are something which can be see very often and this one is not an exception! Moreover this is a record holding puzzle where White goes for six rook promotions in order to achieve victory!
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Harold Maurice Lommer, L’Illustration 1935-12-23
White is winning
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This position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is: r6r/PPPPPP2/2N3P1/R4pP1/p4p2/R1NB1n1k/1p1p4/7K w – – 0 0
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