One horsey against the rest of the world

I found this beautiful puzzle in a book and it quickly became my favourite one.

White to move and win.

Don't tell the solution when commenting.

@OnlyBetterNoBlitz Right click on the image and copy the image link. It needs an image extension to be recognized by the server as a pic.

@clutchnutz thank you <3 You can remove it from your post again so it doesn't show it twice haha
Did you solve it yet?

Yes.. got it! I only saw the first move + material equalization at first. Final move I saw when I played it out on a board. Nice puzzle! 🙂

@clutchnutz First I thought it was a perpetual check but it is amazing how you can actually win this by going all the way back :D

I did it! Reminds me of an old man I used to play chess with, whose opening strategy was to get his opponent's knights off the board as soon as possible because they are "too sneaky."

@Chiksan I heard this too by many players. They started to exchange their bishops for my knights. I think those people are wrong as the bishop pair is very strong. I think it is due to the fact that few weak players know how to activate their bishops the right way because they know little about pawn structure and therefore they think knights are more dangerous, which is not the case at all imo.

@OnlyBetterNoBlitz Actually, I thought I had it at first but didn't. Had to try again. Private message sent.

@OnlyBetterNoBlitz DM me I have a great screenshot to show you