Plaskett's Puzzle is a chess endgame study created by the Dutch endgame composer Gijs van Breukelen around 1970, although it was not published at the time. Van Breukelen published it in 1990 in the Netherlands chess magazine Schakend Nederland. English grandmaster James Plaskett presented the position at a top-flight chess tournament in Brussels in 1987, which gave the study its name. According to contemporary accounts, of the several strong grandmasters who analyzed the position, only former World Champion Mikhail Tal was able to solve it. The study was later found to be flawed: White has no immediately decisive continuation if Black plays 4...Kg4 rather than the obvious 4...Nf7+. The flaw may be fixed by placing Black's g5 knight on h8 or e5, or by adding a white pawn on h2, but the version shown by Plaskett and published by van Breukelen remains the best known.
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