Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Svetozar Gligoric.
White to move and win except where noted.
Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle.Drag your cursor from one bracket to the other.
a) White Mates in 3. Gligoric vs Miroslav Radojcic, Ljubljana, 1947
5qr1/pr3p1k/1n1p2p1/2pPpP1p/P3P2Q/2P1BP1R/7P/6RK w - - 0 1
b)
Gligoric vs Saviely Tartakower, Saltsjobaden, 1948
2r2rk1/p2q1ppp/bpN1pn2/8/8/6P1/PP1QPPBP/2R2RK1 w - - 0 1
[ Qxd7 Nxd7 Ne7+ ]
c)
Gligoric vs Harry Golombek, Hastings, 1952
2r3k1/1b1q3p/p3R1pB/3p1p2/3QnP2/3B3P/6PK/8 w - - 0 1
[ Bxe4 if fxe4 Qe5 ]
d)
Gligoric vs JM Ayerra, Montevideo, 1953
4r1k1/1pp1rqpp/1pnpb3/5p2/2P1PP2/1PQ2B2/PB4PP/3RR1K1 w - - 0 1
[ exf5 Bxf5 Bd5 ]
e)
Gligoric vs Ludek Pachman, Buenos Aires, 1955
1q3rk1/pb2np1p/1p4p1/3B4/4PN2/5P2/PQ4PP/2R3K1 w - - 0 1
[ Ne6 if fxe6 Bxe6+ Rf7 Qf6 Qf8 Rc7 Qg7 Bxf7+ ]
f)
Gligoric vs Alvarez Rodrigo Flores, Mar del Plata, 1955
5k2/3rppbp/p2P2p1/4P3/p7/P1B5/1P2KP1P/3R4 w - - 0 1
[ dxe7+ if Kxe7 Rxd7+ Kxd7 e6+ ]
Petrosian vs Gligoric, Zagreb, 1970
Other GMs from Serbia & Montenegro
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