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Puzzle 43270

This puzzle is deceptive, misleading. It asks for the best solution and the accepted sequence is an exchange: black plays Q-f6, white answers Q-c2, black plays Q X a1, which means black will loose the queen, inevitably. The black queen for a rook and a pawn (a2) and another minor piece, bishop or knight. It is not a good puzzle.
I got sick of these bad puzzles. I don't even try anymore. I'm back to Chesstempo because there puzzles make sense. I love lichess and everything, but the puzzles suck.
I dont do these puzzles either, in fact, I dont do it anywhere,
despite my nick, I created this account to make puzzles, I just dont enjoy them however, I will not delete my account since I like lichess alot and playing games, I will however keep my dubious nickname puzzletraining since I dont do puzzles, I will try on chesstempo, perhaps.
I've read some comments here saying that to solve the puzzles you only need to get used to them because in lichess there's a particular way of solving them. Well, inf fact what they're saying is that you need to hack your thinking process to succeed. To me that's a very bad idea since it's not the natural way of doing it. In addition it's a tiring and frustrating training
Why do you "lose the queen inevitably," is there not a way to retreat the queen?

Click this link and try with me.

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This is definitely an odd one. Manuel, you're right that after Black plays Qxa2, c5 takes away the queen's last flight square, and the best line involves sacrificing the queen for White's bishop on b2. It seems strange to use this position as a puzzle. The final board position could almost be flipped and used as a queen trap puzzle where White's challenge is to regain some material.
I am intrigue by complains from #1, #2, and #4 but I could not find the puzzles. Is it possible to find the puzzles with just the number shown? #5 vxo is very helpful to provide an URL and invite people to give it a try. When I click on the URL, I found only a few pieces of black and white clothings hanging in front of a chess board with the words "404 PAGE NOT FOUND". I am baffle. Please help. Have a nice time. Thank All Friends.

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