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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Reuben Fine.
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)

White Mates in 6. Fine vs Beckhardt, New York, 1933
2kr1n1r/p4p1p/1p1p1Pp1/2pPp3/4P3/2P1n1Pq/P3Q2P/1R3RKN w - - 0 1
[ Qa6+ w/Rxb6+ Qxb6+ Qa6+ & Rb1+ ]

b)

Fine vs George Thomas, Hastings, 1935
2n3k1/p2q1pp1/1pp4p/3nPN1Q/4N3/6PP/PP3P2/6K1 w - - 0 1
[ Qg4 ]

c)

Fine vs T Berg, Kemeri, 1937
2br1r1k/pp4pp/1q6/2p5/2QN1Pn1/1P3BP1/P5KP/3RR3 w - - 0 1
[ Ne6 Rxd1 Bxd1 Qa5 b4 ]

d)

Fine vs Herman Steiner, Hollywood, 1945
3n1b1r/1bN1k1pp/5p2/q2Pn3/1pQp4/8/1PB2PPP/2B1R1K1 w - - 0 1
[ d6+ if Kxd6 Nb5+ ]

e)

Fine vs Herman Steiner, New York, 1948
8/p1Q2n1k/2p3qp/2Pp2r1/3N1p2/5P2/P6P/4R2K w - - 0 1
[ Ne6 w/Nxg5+ or Nf8+ ]

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Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Reuben Fine. White to move and win except where noted.

Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Reuben Fine.
White to move and win except where noted.