After a couple days of really hard "easy" puzzles, the site may be back on track. I don't mind difficult puzzles, but having 21% solve rates for an "easy" puzzle is just false advertising!

This was nice and simple. And useful.

Not important for a puzzle, but initially there is a Black Bishop on F8.
How did the bishop leave the square F8 ?

@chicagodutch
It was captured by a white piece and later resurrected by black b-pawn promoting.
I would agree that putting Pg7->g6 or Pe7->e6 would be nicer and still preserve the solution w/o promoted pieces.

To foresee or recognize this solution in a real game would be difficult and possibly a 5 star; however, know in advance that there is a mate in five moves this to a one star or possibly a one/half star. My grandson, age 8, who is rated as 887 on GameKnot figured this puzzle in less than a minute. Knowing in advance make things much easier.

The real puzzle here is revealed by 'chicagodutch': "How did the bishop leave the square F8?"

Thanks to 'donnaclara' for that answer!

The title kind of gave away the solution. I think that's why I was able to solve it.

Once the bishop gets to f3 ,the kings not escaping,mating puzzles are fun to solve even the easy ones.Strategy is important in chess ,one example being isolated or backward pawns being blocked by knights,but I think it is important to remember that games are won and lost on tactics,but still we need the position to carry them out.The point I am trying to put forward here is that if the brain becomes too strategic thinking,I feel tactics can become hard to find because they are not being looked for,use it or lose it so to speak .That's why doing puzzles is fun and important when the mating configuration or combination goes on on long term memory so we chance to find it as long as we give yourself the time to assess the position to the beast of our ability.

It seems impossible because the Black bishop on f4 could never have left its original square on f8, since neither Black's g-pawn or e-pawn have ever moved. Actually, the position is possible: Black's b-pawn could have moved to b3 before White's b-pawn move, captured a piece on a2, and promoted to a bishop on a1. The bishop then would have escaped when White moved his b-pawn.

Many find such contrivances ugly, and in competitions for composed problems they would not be allowed. I don't have a big problem with this one because it's not particularly blatant. The position still seems natural enough, and the combination is certainly game like and interesting.

However, if you're going to submit puzzles, be aware that there will be criticism of such things. It is almost never necessary to have them, and they are generally easily avoided. Here, simply move the e-pawn to e6 removes any objection.

Even if such objections don't bother you, why distract discussion from the point of the puzzle into side issues?

You're right my friend. Excuse me ant thanks.