Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Mikhail Chigorin.
White to move and win except where noted.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your mouse from one bracket to the other.
a)
Chigorin & Allies vs Gonciarov & Tereschenko, Moscow, 1901
[ Rf5 ]
b)
White Mates in 3. Chigorin vs Yakubovich, corr., 1879
[ Qxh7+ ]
c)
Chigorin vs Simon Alapin, St Petersburg, 1877
[ Qg3 ]
d)
Chigorin vs NN, simul, 1880
[ Rxe5+ ]
e)
White Mates in 4. Chigorin vs Ilia Shumov, St Petersburg, 1876
[ Rf6+ ]
Chigorin Puzzles, Part II. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
Chigorin vs George Gossip, New York, 1889
[ Nc4 ]
b)
White Mates in 7. Chigorin vs Otto, St Petersburg, 1881
[ Ng6+ ]
c)
White Mates in 5. Chigorin vs Emanuel Schiffers, St Petersburg, 1880
[ Qxe7+ ]
d)
Chigorin vs David Baird, New York, 1889
[ Nf4 ]
e)
Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz, Havana, 1889
[ Rb7+ if Kd6 e5+ ]
Chigorin Puzzles, Part III. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
Chigorin vs Isidor Gunsberg, Havana, 1890
[ Re6 ]
b)
Chigorin vs H Steinitz, corr., 1890
[ Bxe6 w/Bxc5 & Bb6 ]
c)
Chigorin vs Solovtsov, Moscow, 1892
[ Nxe7 if Kxe7 Rh4 traps the Q ]
d)
White Mates in 7. Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz, Havana, 1892
[ Rxb4 ]
e)
Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz, Havana, 1892
[ Qxd5 ]
Chigorin Puzzles, Part IV. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
Chigorin vs J Kotrc, Prague, 1896
[ Rxh5+ w/Qf4+ ]
b)
Chigorin vs Simon Winawer, Nuremberg, 1896
[ Rd4 ]
c)
Chigorin vs Adolf Zinkl, Berlin, 1897
[ f6+ w/Bxh6+ ]
d)
Chigorin vs Horatio Caro, Vienna, 1898
[ Rxg7 ]
e)
Chigorin vs Carl Walbrodt, Vienna, 1898
[ Qe1 wins the N ]
Chigorin Puzzles, Part V. White to move and win except where noted.
a)
Chigorin vs Jankovitch, Moscow, 1899
[ Ba7+ ]
b)
White Mates in 4. Chigorin vs Samuel Tinsley, London, 1899
[ R6xd7+ ]
c)
Chigorin vs David Janowski, Paris, 1900
[ f5 ]
d)
Chigorin vs Ignacy Von Popiel, Hanover, 1902
[ Nb4 ]
e)
Chigorin vs Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Kiev, 1903
[ Ne7+ ]
Chigorin Puzzles, Part VI. Black to move and win except where noted.
a)
Black Mates in 3. Consultants vs Chigorin, St Petersburg, 1875
7k/pbp3bp/3p4/1p5q/3n2p1/5rB1/PP1NrN1P/1Q1BRRK1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxg3+ hxg3 Qh1+ ]
b)
Evgeny Schmidt vs Chigorin, St Petersburg, 1879
6k1/p5p1/4P3/2pP1p2/2q5/4r2P/P3R2Q/5K2 b - - 0 1
[ ...Qc1+ w/...Rxe2+ ]
c)
Henry Bird vs Chigorin, Vienna, 1882
4r1k1/p4pp1/2pbr1q1/7p/3B2n1/1P2p1P1/P1PPQPK1/3N1R1R b - - 0 1
[ ...Nxf2 if Nxf2 Qxg3# ]
d)
Carl Schmid vs Chigorin, Vienna, 1882
2kr1r2/ppp5/4p2p/3nP3/6pP/1QP3N1/PP3qPK/R3N2R b - - 0 1
[ ...Rf3 Nxf3 gxf3 if Rhg1 Rg8 mates ]
e)
Isidor Gunsberg vs Chigorin, Habana, 1890
2k4r/pbp5/4n3/2p1Ppp1/2Pp1PpP/1P3qP1/PR5K/2B2QR1 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxh4+ gxh4 g3+ ]
Chigorin Puzzles, Part VII. Black to move and win except where noted.
a)
Siegbert Tarrasch vs Chigorin, St Petersburg, 1893
5kr1/1pp3q1/p2p1p2/3Pp2R/2P1n3/4P3/PP2K3/3Q3R b - - 0 1
[ ...Qg2+ w/...Nf2+ ]
b)
Black Mates in 9. Harry Pillsbury vs Chigorin, London, 1899
6k1/3r2pp/2r1p3/3n1p2/3Q1P2/q3PPR1/2BK2RP/8 b - - 0 1
[ ...Rxc2+ Kxc2 Rc7+ Kd2 Qc1+ ]
c)
Joseph Blackburne vs Chigorin, London, 1899
2r1b1k1/5ppp/1pP1p3/1P1nP3/q2N1P2/r3B3/2RQ2PP/4R2K b - - 0 1
[ ...Nxe3 Rxe3 Ra1+ Re1 Rxe1+ ]
d)
White to move and win. Chigorin vs George Marco, Ostende, 1905
[ Rxe5 or Bxe5 ]
e)
White to move and win. Chigorin vs Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, St Petersburg, 1906
[ Re7+ w/Bg3+ ]
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