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A special chess puzzle

Well the bishop is on f3, and White's King is on f4.

Remember that Black pawns advance to promote on the first rank, not the eighth. :D
There is a way to win for sure.

I thought for days that the composer of this problem made some kind of assumption, and that it really is a draw.

But eventually as it so turns out you indeed can force a win.
I can take off all major and minor pieces but the queen, and a pawn before it gets weird.09jdgh9jrt890th
You can't capture the queen, but you don't need to. It's in the way of Black's promotion and the King itself, so you wouldn't want to capture it.

Just keep making waiting moves with your Queen as White until enough pawn movements by Black are forced onto squares where you take them. Eventually, Black will be forced to play a move that allows
you to deliver checkmate.
There are five pawns left. This is intense.
Heh...it just means you're almost there. :D

Although if you happen to get stuck, if you upload a screen shot I can try to give a hint or whatever.
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- - Q - - - k q

w00t!
correction:
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Yeah :D ! Nice going man.

Course I should have known you'd have figured it. I was able to reproduce that exact ending position just now.

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